1 00:00:02,001 --> 00:00:06,000 Hello fellow podcast downloaders, thank you for choosing 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:07,001 This Week in Amateur Radio. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,001 We are now celebrating our 23rd year of service to the worldwide amateur radio 4 00:00:12,001 --> 00:00:16,001 community, and we are your all amateur radio and technology news 5 00:00:16,001 --> 00:00:18,001 magazine and bulletin service of the air. 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 We hope you're airing us on your local repeater. 7 00:00:21,001 --> 00:00:27,000 This is edition number 1223 with a release and air date of Saturday, 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,000 August 6, 2022. 9 00:00:29,001 --> 00:00:33,000 Please take the program to your air following the Q-Tone. 10 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:40,001 Greetings! 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:46,000 You have found North America's premier amateur radio news magazine of the air 12 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,001 this week in Amateur Radio. 13 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,001 You are going to hear all the latest news happening in Amateur Radio and the wide 14 00:00:53,001 --> 00:00:55,000 world of communications in general. 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:00,000 We are sure that you will find something to interest you in this week's newscast, 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,001 so let's get started. 17 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,001 Here are the stories for release around the earth as we come to air with edition 18 00:01:06,001 --> 00:01:12,000 number 1223 of this week in Amateur Radio. 19 00:01:12,001 --> 00:01:17,001 The radio amateurs of Canada announces two new bands for amateurs in that 20 00:01:17,001 --> 00:01:19,000 country, we'll tell you about it. 21 00:01:19,001 --> 00:01:23,000 The 8 of LRL has a new station on the air through the facilities 22 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:24,001 of its brand new Radiolab. 23 00:01:24,001 --> 00:01:26,001 We will have all the details. 24 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:32,001 The chairperson of the FCC, Jessica Rosenworcel, applauds the introduction of new 25 00:01:32,001 --> 00:01:34,000 net neutrality legislation. 26 00:01:34,001 --> 00:01:38,001 The ARDC, Amateur Radio Digital Communications Group, hands 27 00:01:38,001 --> 00:01:40,000 out a few more grants this week. 28 00:01:40,001 --> 00:01:43,001 We will tell you who was on the receiving end and what they are planning. 29 00:01:44,001 --> 00:01:48,001 High Z Antenna Corporation has announced that their antennas will now be 30 00:01:48,001 --> 00:01:51,001 manufactured and distributed by DX Engineering. 31 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:57,000 An electronics manufacturer in New York State has been issued a $700 32 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,001 ,000 fine by the FCC. 33 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,001 We will tell you why. 34 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,001 We will have a special report on the importance of shortwave 35 00:02:04,001 --> 00:02:06,000 broadcasting during emergencies. 36 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,001 QST is now offering a column in the magazine for radio clubs. 37 00:02:11,001 --> 00:02:17,000 And scientists report that June 29, 2022 was not 24 hours in length. 38 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,001 In fact, quite a few days have been coming up a few milliseconds short lately. 39 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:22,001 Why? 40 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 It appears the Earth is spinning faster. 41 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,001 We will have all the details on this and a lot of other stories coming up 42 00:02:29,001 --> 00:02:31,000 in this week's report. 43 00:02:32,001 --> 00:02:35,000 These headline stories will come to you in a moment along with 44 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,001 this week's special features. 45 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:42,001 Our technology reporter, Leo LaPorte, W6TWT returns after catching COVID on his 46 00:02:42,001 --> 00:02:47,000 vacation and we'll spend his segment this week talking about the past 47 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,001 and future of technology. 48 00:02:49,001 --> 00:02:53,001 We'll visit with Bruce Page, KK5DO, and get an update from AMSAT on what's new 49 00:02:53,001 --> 00:02:55,001 with all of those amateur satellites in orbit. 50 00:02:56,001 --> 00:03:00,001 Australia's own Anil Ben-Shoff, VK6FLAB, wants to know what's 51 00:03:00,001 --> 00:03:02,000 with the repeater offset again? 52 00:03:02,001 --> 00:03:07,000 Our own amateur radio historian, Bill Cantinelli, W2XOI returns with another 53 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 edition of his summer series, Amateur Radio History Headlines. 54 00:03:11,001 --> 00:03:16,001 This week, Bill takes us on a tour of the headlines above the fold during the 55 00:03:16,001 --> 00:03:19,001 years 1958 through 1962. 56 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Our tower climbing and antenna master, Greg Stoddard, KF9MP, puts aside his tools 57 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:30,000 and climbing belt for part three of his series on composing a successful public 58 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:35,000 service announcement to promote your upcoming Hamfest or special club event and 59 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,001 getting it on the air on local broadcast outlets. 60 00:03:37,001 --> 00:03:41,001 We will have the latest news from Parks on the Air and Summits on the Air with 61 00:03:41,001 --> 00:03:48,001 Vance Martin, N3VEM, and we will have a talk given by Gordon West, yes Gordo, 62 00:03:48,001 --> 00:03:52,000 WB6NOA, on working tropospheric ducting. 63 00:03:52,001 --> 00:03:56,001 All that and a lot more is straight ahead as North America's premier amateur 64 00:03:56,001 --> 00:04:00,001 radio and technology news magazine and bulletin service this week 65 00:04:00,001 --> 00:04:02,000 in Amateur Radio. 66 00:04:02,001 --> 00:04:04,001 Takes it to the air right now. 67 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Reporting from our headquarters studio here in the suburbs surrounding Albany, 68 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,001 New York, I'm George W2XBS. 69 00:04:12,001 --> 00:04:15,001 And reporting from the newsroom in Half Moon, New York, I'm Terry 70 00:04:15,001 --> 00:04:17,000 Saunders, N1KIN. 71 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,001 And reporting this week from Courtlandville, New York in the heart of the Seven 72 00:04:22,001 --> 00:04:27,000 Valleys, I'm Chris Perrine, KB2FAF. 73 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,000 And reporting from our News Bureau in Rochester, New York, along the southern 74 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,000 shore of Lake Ontario, I'm Dave Wilson, WA2HOY. 75 00:04:37,001 --> 00:04:43,000 And reporting from our News Bureau just outside Albany, New York in the Geek Cave 76 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,001 studios, I'm Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB. 77 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,001 And reporting from our secret radio enclave high atop the Catskill Mountains, 78 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,000 where it's one thunderstorm after another after another, and my headphones are 79 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,000 crackling with static 24-7. 80 00:04:58,001 --> 00:05:00,001 I'm Don Hewlett, K2ATJ. 81 00:05:01,001 --> 00:05:06,001 And reporting from a muggy Troy, New York News Bureau, I'm Eric, KB2RJX. 82 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,001 And reporting from our News Bureau in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where the 83 00:05:10,001 --> 00:05:17,000 thermometer is still threatening to pop its top, I'm Will Rogers, K5WLR. Glad 84 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,001 to be indoors in the AC. 85 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:25,000 And now with this week's lead story, here is Terry Saunders, N1KIN. 86 00:05:25,001 --> 00:05:30,001 Leading off the news this week, Radio Amateurs of Canada reports on July 28, 87 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,001 2022, Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada released an update to a 88 00:05:35,001 --> 00:05:40,001 very important document for Canadian radio amateurs called RBR4, Standards for 89 00:05:40,001 --> 00:05:44,001 the Operation of Radio Stations in the Amateur Radio Service. For more on the new 90 00:05:44,001 --> 00:05:49,001 allocations released for Canadian amateurs, we go to Steve Richards, G4HPE, who 91 00:05:49,001 --> 00:05:54,000 files this report through the Southgate News Service in the UK. The document, 92 00:05:54,001 --> 00:05:59,000 called RBR4, Standards for the Operation of Radio Stations in the Amateur Radio 93 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Service, is an important one for Canadian hams. 94 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,000 The full document specifies what frequencies radio amateurs may operate on, and 95 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,001 what power levels and bandwidths they may use. 96 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Crucially, in this release, there are two major new additions to the spectrum. 97 00:06:14,001 --> 00:06:20,001 Firstly, 472 to 479 kHz, also known as 630 metres, 98 00:06:20,001 --> 00:06:22,000 very low frequency in other words. 99 00:06:22,001 --> 00:06:28,000 On this band, Canadian amateurs are allowed to run a maximum of 5 watts EIRP, 100 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,001 using emissions with a maximum bandwidth of 1 kHz. 101 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Secondly, there's a new chunk on the 60-metre band, 5351.5 to 5366 102 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:40,001 .5 kHz. 103 00:06:40,001 --> 00:06:46,001 This is in line with the new WARC worldwide allocation, but contains enhancements 104 00:06:46,001 --> 00:06:51,001 specific to Canada. Canadian amateurs are allowed to run a maximum of 100 watts 105 00:06:51,001 --> 00:06:57,000 EIRP in this segment, using emissions with a maximum bandwidth of 2.8 kHz. 106 00:06:57,001 --> 00:07:01,001 This new 60-metre band chunk is in addition to radio amateurs' existing fixed 107 00:07:01,001 --> 00:07:07,001 frequency allocations at 5332, 5348, 5373 and 108 00:07:07,001 --> 00:07:14,000 5405 kHz. The new 15 kHz wide allocation overlaps on the existing authority 109 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:21,000 to use 5358.5 kHz. But Canadian amateurs are unique in having authority to use 110 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,001 100 watts EIRP on the four spot frequencies and on the new 15 111 00:07:25,001 --> 00:07:27,000 kHz worldwide segment. 112 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,001 Amateurs in most countries are limited to 25 watts or less and may operate only 113 00:07:32,001 --> 00:07:38,000 in the new 15 kHz wide segment. Note that in Canada, amateur radio is a secondary 114 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,000 radio service on these bands. 115 00:07:40,001 --> 00:07:44,000 Amateurs may not cause harmful interference to the primary users and may not 116 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:49,001 claim protection from interference by primary users. Dave Goodwin, Victor Echo 3 117 00:07:49,001 --> 00:07:54,000 Kilo Golf, is the Regulatory Affairs Officer for Radio Amateurs of Canada and 118 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,000 tells us that you can find the full updated document and other supporting 119 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:03,001 material by visiting www.rac.ca. 120 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:08,000 There are other small changes listed in RBR4 that bring Canadian amateur radio 121 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,000 regulations in line with changes agreed at several previous world radio 122 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,001 conferences of the International Telecommunications Union. Radio amateurs of 123 00:08:15,001 --> 00:08:20,001 Canada would like to thank former regulatory officer Richard Furch, VE3KI, for 124 00:08:20,001 --> 00:08:23,001 his dedicated work over several years to bring these changes forward. 125 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:30,000 ARRL has unveiled its new radio laboratory W1HQ in a video released on August 126 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 4, 2022. 127 00:08:32,001 --> 00:08:39,001 In the video, Jerica Goodgame, KI5HTA, a summer intern at ARRL 128 00:08:39,001 --> 00:08:44,000 Headquarters, tours viewers through the station. With more on the new station on 129 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:49,001 the air at League Headquarters and its laboratory functions, we go to John Ross, 130 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,001 KD8IDJ, who files this report. 131 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:59,001 The ARRL Radiolab is an innovative test space designed to reshape the way we 132 00:08:59,001 --> 00:09:03,001 imagine and build a ham radio shack, said Goodgame. The station is intended to 133 00:09:03,001 --> 00:09:07,001 inspire members to build, organize and equip their own stations in innovative 134 00:09:07,001 --> 00:09:12,001 ways, from a decluttered workspace to a digital user interface to being able to 135 00:09:12,001 --> 00:09:17,001 remote into the equipment from anywhere, W1HQ is a step towards the future of 136 00:09:17,001 --> 00:09:21,001 amateur radio stations. The station includes a new tower and antennas atop the 137 00:09:21,001 --> 00:09:25,000 main administrative building at ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut. 138 00:09:25,001 --> 00:09:30,000 Inside the station, three operating positions provide an interface to rack 139 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,000 -mounted and computer-controlled transceivers, amplifiers, antenna switches and 140 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:39,001 rotators. The Radiolab will also support equipment testing and QST product 141 00:09:39,001 --> 00:09:43,001 review. An extension of product reviews in the future will be able to take that 142 00:09:43,001 --> 00:09:47,001 piece of gear that we've been testing, put it on this test bench and see how it 143 00:09:47,001 --> 00:09:51,000 integrates with a station that's already under full automation and control 144 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:55,001 Goodgame set. You can view the recently published video mentioned in this story 145 00:09:55,001 --> 00:10:01,001 on the ARRL's YouTube channel. You are listening to North America's premier news 146 00:10:01,001 --> 00:10:06,000 and information service for the amateur radio hobbyist. We are, this 147 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:07,001 week, in amateur radio. 148 00:10:28,001 --> 00:10:35,000 The ARRL invites you to be part of Club Station, the newest column in QST. This 149 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,001 column is a space for radio clubs to share the different ways in which they're 150 00:10:39,001 --> 00:10:42,001 successful to help other clubs grow. 151 00:10:42,001 --> 00:10:47,000 They do this by offering advice and practical solutions to common 152 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,001 experiences and problems. 153 00:10:49,001 --> 00:10:54,000 In each issue, a different club will share how they undertook a specific activity 154 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:00,000 or project, how and why it was successful and any challenges they may have had to 155 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:06,000 overcome throughout the process. Some examples include, but are not limited to, 156 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:11,000 successful community club projects, innovative ways to attract new members, 157 00:11:11,001 --> 00:11:17,001 getting youth involved with ham radio, and developing active hams. Clubs are the 158 00:11:17,001 --> 00:11:22,000 backbone of the amateur radio community, said AWRL field services manager Mike 159 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:28,001 Walters, W8ZY. If your club is doing something that will inspire other clubs, 160 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:34,001 we want to hear from you. In order to help you tell your story, ARRL has 161 00:11:34,001 --> 00:11:40,000 published author guidelines that are geared toward club station, and they include 162 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:46,000 a club profile form, said QST editor Lena Figluski, KC1RMP. 163 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:53,001 Both of these documents can be found at www. arrl.org slash 164 00:11:53,001 --> 00:12:00,000 QST dash club dash station dash guidelines dash and dash 165 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,000 profile dash form. 166 00:12:02,001 --> 00:12:07,001 You don't have to have any writing experience to be published in QST. If your 167 00:12:07,001 --> 00:12:12,000 submission is accepted, our editorial staff will work with you to get your story 168 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:17,000 ready for publication. All clubs are welcome to participate. The first iteration 169 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:22,001 of club station appeared in the August 2022 issue of QST, and includes more 170 00:12:22,001 --> 00:12:26,001 information about what members can expect to see from the column. 171 00:12:27,001 --> 00:12:33,001 If you have any questions, contact us at club at ARRL.org. We look forward to 172 00:12:33,001 --> 00:12:38,001 hearing from you, and about your radio club. Federal Communications Commission 173 00:12:38,001 --> 00:12:43,001 Chairwoman, Jessica Rosenworcel, has welcomed the introduction of the Net 174 00:12:43,001 --> 00:12:48,000 Neutrality and Broadband Justice Act in the Senate and House of Representatives. 175 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:54,000 In a statement that also asserts that the regulatory agency has the authority it 176 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,001 needs to adopt net neutrality rules. 177 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,001 Given the difficulties Democrats have had in breaking the 2-2 deadlock in the 178 00:13:01,001 --> 00:13:07,000 FCC, and the stalled nomination of Gigi Sohn, the new legislation would 179 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,000 implement net neutrality rules. 180 00:13:09,001 --> 00:13:15,000 The pandemic made it clear that internet access is no longer a luxury, but a 181 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:20,001 necessity, and that consumers don't just need broadband, they need to be able to 182 00:13:20,001 --> 00:13:26,000 hold their providers to account, Rosenworcel said in a statement. After all, 183 00:13:26,001 --> 00:13:30,000 everyone should be able to go where they want, and do what they want online, 184 00:13:30,001 --> 00:13:34,000 without their broadband provider making choices for them. 185 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:39,000 I support net neutrality because it fosters this openness and accountability. 186 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:44,001 While I trust the FCC has the authority it needs to adopt net neutrality rules, 187 00:13:45,001 --> 00:13:50,000 legislation that helps ensure it is the law of the land is welcome. FCC 188 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:54,001 Commissioner Jeffrey Starks also issued a statement supporting the introduction 189 00:13:54,001 --> 00:14:00,001 of net neutrality legislation in the US Congress. I have previously stated that 190 00:14:00,001 --> 00:14:06,001 the FCC's 2015 net neutrality rules were the right approach, Sparks wrote in a 191 00:14:06,001 --> 00:14:11,001 statement. That approach is undergirded by a voluminous record and overwhelming 192 00:14:11,001 --> 00:14:14,001 public support, and it has been tested in court. 193 00:14:15,001 --> 00:14:21,001 The Net Neutrality and Broadband Justice Act would codify just that. COVID and 194 00:14:21,001 --> 00:14:26,001 the last few years have proven that broadband is essential for the 21st century. 195 00:14:27,001 --> 00:14:32,000 This legislation is an important step that will provide certainty to consumers 196 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:37,001 and broadband providers, and allow everyone to move forward. It has my strong 197 00:14:37,001 --> 00:14:43,001 support. Amateur Radio Digital Communications has awarded a grant to the Sagamon 198 00:14:43,001 --> 00:14:48,000 Valley Radio Club in Springfield, Illinois for a new project to introduce youth, 199 00:14:48,001 --> 00:14:53,000 outdoor enthusiasts, and members of the public to Amateur Radio. John Ross, 200 00:14:53,001 --> 00:14:59,001 KD8IDJ, has more. The grant is for radio orienteering activities, also known as 201 00:14:59,001 --> 00:15:03,001 amateur radio direction finding. The club will purchase transmitters, 202 00:15:03,001 --> 00:15:07,001 controllers, receivers, maps, and other items needed to conduct successful radio 203 00:15:07,001 --> 00:15:11,001 orienteering events. In addition, there will be several events for members and 204 00:15:11,001 --> 00:15:16,000 local youth groups such as Boy Scouts of America and the Civil Air Patrol. These 205 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,001 events will allow participants to learn the technical and outdoor skills needed 206 00:15:19,001 --> 00:15:21,001 to succeed in radio orienteering. 207 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Radio orienteering is an international sport. Participants choose handheld 208 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:30,001 directional radio receivers, compasses, maps, and radio direction finding skills 209 00:15:30,001 --> 00:15:35,001 to search for transmitters operating in the 2 and 80 meter bands. They use their 210 00:15:35,001 --> 00:15:39,000 athletic orienteering and technical skills attempting to locate low power 211 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:45,000 transmitters and get to the finish line first. The ARRL ARDF Committee explains 212 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:50,000 that in this sport there are no vehicles, traffic jams, or exhaust fumes. Radio 213 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:54,001 orienteering, aka amateur radio direction finding, brings radios into the great 214 00:15:54,001 --> 00:15:59,000 outdoors with maps and compasses providing a uniquely enjoyable way to learn new 215 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,001 radio skills. It involves constructing direction finding equipment, training 216 00:16:03,001 --> 00:16:08,000 amateurs in the roles of the sport, and organizing events in the USA and other 217 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,001 countries. The 20th IARU World Championships in Amateur Radio Direction Finding 218 00:16:12,001 --> 00:16:18,000 will be held in Borgovets, Bulgaria on August 28th through September 3rd of 2022. 219 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,001 And then the 22nd USA Radio Orienteering Championships will be held April 19th 220 00:16:23,001 --> 00:16:29,001 through the 23rd in 2023 near Dallas, Texas. The Sagamon Valley Radio Club plans 221 00:16:29,001 --> 00:16:34,000 to share their experiences and equipment requirements to help other amateur radio 222 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,000 clubs who may be considering similar events and programs. While the sport is very 223 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,001 popular in Europe as well as parts of Asia, growth in the United States and 224 00:16:41,001 --> 00:16:45,000 Canada has been slow. There are two main reasons for this. 225 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:49,000 The lack of youth involvement and the availability of affordable equipment. 226 00:16:49,001 --> 00:16:53,000 More information about the Sagamon Valley Radio Club can be found at their 227 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,000 website svrc.org. 228 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,000 IZ Antennas' full line of HF Directive Receiving Array products will now be 229 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:07,000 designed and manufactured by DX Engineering. IZ's CEO, founder, and chief 230 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:14,000 engineer Elise Strahan, K7TJR, said, The time has come for me to pass along 231 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,000 IZ's Antennas technology to DX Engineering. 232 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,001 It's my wish they will usher in a new pinnacle of performance as they carry 233 00:17:21,001 --> 00:17:26,001 forward IZ's latest designs and ideas. It's great to know that IZ will be in such 234 00:17:26,001 --> 00:17:32,000 capable hands. Strahan became interested in low band operating more than 20 years 235 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:38,000 ago after reaching Japan on 160 meters while contesting. He began building array 236 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,001 systems for personal use, but after publishing one of his designs on the 237 00:17:41,001 --> 00:17:47,000 internet, he drew the attention to like-minded items. Since then, IZ's singular 238 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:51,000 focus has been producing and refining receiving systems that deliver to reduced 239 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:57,000 noise, superb weak signal HF reception, and reliable performance, especially for 240 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:03,001 160 and 80 meters, and AMDXing. DX Engineering has been the exclusive dealer of 241 00:18:03,001 --> 00:18:09,001 the IZ equipment since 2013. A Brooklyn, New York, marketer of wireless 242 00:18:09,001 --> 00:18:13,001 microphones has been fined nearly $700,000 by the U.S. Federal Communications 243 00:18:13,001 --> 00:18:17,001 Commission for what the agency said is a decade-long practice of selling these 244 00:18:17,001 --> 00:18:22,001 devices, which are not RF compliant. The FCC said that 32 microphones sold by 245 00:18:22,001 --> 00:18:27,000 SoundAround failed to comply with FCC requirements governing emissions power and 246 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,001 use of the spectrum and rules that protect against harmful interference to other 247 00:18:30,001 --> 00:18:34,001 spectrum users. The Commission has rejected the business's assertion that the 248 00:18:34,001 --> 00:18:38,001 dollar amount of the proposed fine was too high, that a decade of warnings and 249 00:18:38,001 --> 00:18:42,000 notices sent by the FCC was insufficient, and that photos of the company's 250 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,001 marketing websites did not provide proof that 251 00:18:44,001 --> 00:18:46,000 the item was available for purchase. 252 00:18:46,001 --> 00:18:50,000 According to a press release from the FCC, the U.S. Department of Justice will be 253 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:55,000 given the case to handle if SoundAround fails to pay the fine. The A.R.R.L. New 254 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:02,000 England division recently helped the Massachusetts Task Force One, MATF One, the 255 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:07,000 Federal Emergency Management Agency Urban Search and Rescue Team test message 256 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,000 distribution in the event of a total communications failure. 257 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,001 Using the National Traffic System, nearly 250 radiograms 258 00:19:15,001 --> 00:19:17,000 were routed through the system. 259 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Charles Rocheleau, W-1CPR, a FEMA communications specialist for the MATF One, 260 00:19:25,001 --> 00:19:30,001 said the alerts were the real thing. The alerts I sent out were real-world alerts 261 00:19:30,001 --> 00:19:37,001 as the task force, MATF One, FEMA, U.S. and R, was on standby for deployment to 262 00:19:37,001 --> 00:19:44,001 Kentucky, he said. Steve Hansen, KB1TCE, runs a digital hub in Owl's Head, 263 00:19:44,001 --> 00:19:49,000 Maine, and was my go-to person for injecting these messages quickly into the 264 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:56,000 National Traffic System. Marsha Ford, KW1U, an active traffic handler in the 265 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:02,000 NTS since 1981, said she received an alert that 40 messages were being sent 266 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,001 from W1CPR. 267 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:10,000 I alerted key main traffic handlers to be ready, and these folks did a fantastic 268 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:15,001 job of getting them out, she stated. All 40 messages were handled in one day. 269 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:22,001 Phil Temples, K9HI, Vice Director of the AWRL New England Division, said the 270 00:20:22,001 --> 00:20:28,000 National Traffic System and all amateur radio operators involved did a great job 271 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:33,001 passing the messages. You're listening to This Week in Amateur Radio, available 272 00:20:33,001 --> 00:20:37,000 worldwide as a podcast from our web at www 273 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,001 .twir.net. 274 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:05,000 BBC News reports that Russia says it will withdraw from the International Space 275 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Station after 2024 and build its own station instead. News of a possible broken 276 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,001 partnership had observers questioning how the operation of the ISS would 277 00:21:13,001 --> 00:21:15,000 continue without Russia's participation. 278 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:19,000 The US and Russia, along with other partners, have successfully worked together 279 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:24,001 on the ISS since 1998, but relations have soured since Russia invaded Ukraine and 280 00:21:24,001 --> 00:21:27,001 Russia previously threatened to quit the project because of Western sanctions 281 00:21:27,001 --> 00:21:32,000 against it. NASA said it has not yet received any official notice of Russia's 282 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:36,001 intention to withdraw from the program. The ISS, a joint project involving five 283 00:21:36,001 --> 00:21:41,000 space agencies, has been in orbit around Earth since 1998 and has been used to 284 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,001 conduct thousands of scientific experiments. It has approved operate until 2024, 285 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,000 but the US wants to extend that for six more years with the agreement of all 286 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,001 partners. At a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Mr. Borisov said 287 00:21:53,001 --> 00:21:57,001 Russ Kosmos would fulfill its obligation to its partners, but the decision had 288 00:21:57,001 --> 00:22:01,001 been taken to quit the project after 2024. I think that by this time we will 289 00:22:01,001 --> 00:22:05,000 start putting together a Russian orbital station, Mr. Borisov said, adding that 290 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:10,000 the new station was his agency's top priority. Good, replied Mr. Putin. It is not 291 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,000 immediately clear what the decision means for the future of the ISS, and the US 292 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,000 space agency NASA says it has not received any formal notice from Russia of its 293 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:23,000 plans. Former ISS commander and retired US astronaut Dr. Leroy Chow believes it 294 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,001 is unlikely Russia will decide to leave the project. 295 00:22:25,001 --> 00:22:29,000 I think this is posturing by the Russians. They don't have the money to build 296 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,000 their own station, and it would take several years to do it. They've got nothing 297 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:36,000 else if they go this route, he told the BBC. The Russians have been making noises 298 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,000 about withdrawal for some time, but it's not clear how serious they are. They've 299 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,001 talked about building their own outpost, the Russian Orbital Service Station, but 300 00:22:43,001 --> 00:22:47,000 it would require a financial commitment the Russian government has not shown to 301 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:51,001 the country's existing space exploits. Certainly, Russian elements on the ISS are 302 00:22:51,001 --> 00:22:55,000 aging, but the view of engineers is that the modules can do a job through to 303 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,000 2030. If Russia does leave, there's no question it would be problematic. The 304 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,001 station's designed in a way that makes the partners dependent on each other. The 305 00:23:02,001 --> 00:23:06,001 US side of the ISS provides the power. The Russian side provides the propulsion 306 00:23:06,001 --> 00:23:10,001 and keeps the platform from falling to Earth. If that propulsive capability is 307 00:23:10,001 --> 00:23:14,001 withdrawn, the US and its other partners, Europe, Japan, and Canada, will need to 308 00:23:14,001 --> 00:23:18,001 devise other means of periodically boosting the station higher in the sky. It's 309 00:23:18,001 --> 00:23:22,001 something American robotic freighters could do. The last week of July found 310 00:23:22,001 --> 00:23:26,001 amateur radio operators on alert in eastern Kentucky as a trail of thunderstorms 311 00:23:26,001 --> 00:23:31,001 brought flooding that left at least 37 people dead. As the floodwaters began to 312 00:23:31,001 --> 00:23:36,001 recede following devastating rainfall in Kentucky that began on July 26, the 313 00:23:36,001 --> 00:23:41,000 American Red Cross reported that over 400 of their disaster workers were on the 314 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:46,000 ground as well as dozens more in other locations. In addition to causing loss of 315 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,000 life, the flood wreaked havoc on the electric service, water lines, and roads. As 316 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,001 floodwaters recede, residents in many areas of eastern Kentucky continue to 317 00:23:54,001 --> 00:23:57,001 remain stranded due to the destruction of scores of 318 00:23:57,001 --> 00:23:59,000 small bridges linking roadways. 319 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:04,000 They provided shelter, meals, and other forms of support. Red Cross teams also 320 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,001 worked alongside their state and municipal partners, among others, including 321 00:24:07,001 --> 00:24:12,001 Kentucky Amateur Radio Emergency Service volunteers. A RRL Director of Emergency 322 00:24:12,001 --> 00:24:18,001 Management, Josh Johnson, KE5MHV, was in touch with American Red Cross personnel 323 00:24:18,001 --> 00:24:22,001 in the affected area. He said, ham radio volunteers were supporting Red Cross 324 00:24:22,001 --> 00:24:27,000 damage assessment teams with radio communications. The rural and mountainous 325 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,000 terrain of the affected area adds to the already difficult situation, said 326 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,001 Johnson. Much of the local response effort is being coordinated by Steve Morgan, 327 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:41,000 W4, and HO of Owensboro, Kentucky. The response of radio amateurs throughout the 328 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:46,000 region is under and in cooperation with an existing memorandum of understanding 329 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,000 with the Kentucky chapter of the American Red Cross. The Aries groups from Ohio 330 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,001 and Virginia have also been in touch with hams in the affected areas and have 331 00:24:54,001 --> 00:25:01,001 been on standby ready to respond if needed. New Zealand has now made 5925 and 332 00:25:01,001 --> 00:25:08,000 26425 megahertz available for wireless local area network following similar 333 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,000 action in the United States and Australia. 334 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:17,001 RSM radio spectrum management, that country's regulator, has now made the 5925 to 335 00:25:17,001 --> 00:25:22,001 6425 megahertz frequency band available for wireless local area network service 336 00:25:22,001 --> 00:25:28,000 under the low power indoor use and very low power indoor and outdoor regime 337 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:32,001 throughout the radio communications regulations, the general user radio license 338 00:25:32,001 --> 00:25:38,001 for short range devices, notice 22. By adopting comparable conditions, this 339 00:25:38,001 --> 00:25:42,001 aligns with the approaches adopted in Australia and the United Kingdom. 340 00:25:43,001 --> 00:25:49,000 This decision allows our June 2021 consultation where we were invited interested 341 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:54,000 parties to make submission to our consultation paper wireless local area network 342 00:25:54,000 --> 00:26:00,001 use of the 6 gigahertz band on future use of the 5925 to 7125 343 00:26:00,001 --> 00:26:05,000 megahertz. In addition, we've made corrections to the conditions applying to the 344 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:12,000 5150 to 5350 megahertz band and have also extended the 57 to 66 gigahertz band 345 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:17,000 to 57 to 71 gigahertz. This is to bring our provisions in line with other 346 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:22,000 regions, including Australia, Europe and North America. Finland's National 347 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:28,001 Amateur Radio Society, the SRAL, reports the OH-2CH radio club applied for and 348 00:26:28,001 --> 00:26:35,000 got a grant of 99,915 euros, that is approximately 100 349 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:42,000 ,000 US dollars. Espoo's radio club OH-2CH has done pioneering work 350 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:47,001 by going through the ARDC application process with a successful outcome, 351 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:55,000 receiving a 99,915 euro grant for the implementation of an independent 5 352 00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:01,000 gigahertz IP backbone network focused on radio amateur services. The network will 353 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:08,000 connect the digital and analog repeaters maintained by the AmperNet 354 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:13,001 services and the internet. The SRAL board also got to be in a small part of this 355 00:27:13,001 --> 00:27:19,000 process when they wrote a letter of support for the application. This exercise 356 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:24,001 now opens doors for other clubs to apply for grants for various technical and 357 00:27:24,001 --> 00:27:29,001 scientific projects in the area of amateur radio technology. This kind of 358 00:27:29,001 --> 00:27:35,000 activity will significantly increase the visibility and viability of the radio 359 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:42,000 amateur hobby in the future. Congratulations to Espoo Radio Club OH-2CH for the 360 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:47,001 remarkable work and clearing the way. And a special note to Eric Fincus as the 361 00:27:47,001 --> 00:27:54,001 active promoter of the OH-2LAK project. The SARL said in its press release, 362 00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Amateur Radio Digital Communications is a private foundation whose mission is to 363 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,001 support the science and technology of amateur radio and digital communications 364 00:28:04,001 --> 00:28:09,001 and can be found at amper.org. That's www 365 00:28:09,001 --> 00:28:13,001 .ampr.org. 366 00:28:14,001 --> 00:28:19,001 Amateur Radio provided communications for the Ironman Lake Placid Triathlon on 367 00:28:19,001 --> 00:28:26,001 Sunday, July 24, 2022. The Champlain Valley Amateur Radio Club provided 29 368 00:28:26,001 --> 00:28:32,000 licensed operators with communications for 11 ambulances, 5 bike aid stations, 4 369 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:37,000 support and gear vehicles, 2 medical tent stations, and 2 net control stations. 370 00:28:37,001 --> 00:28:42,001 All radio operators volunteered their time and many worked 16 hours or more for a 371 00:28:42,001 --> 00:28:48,001 combined 385 hours. They were honored with an award for special recognition for a 372 00:28:48,001 --> 00:28:55,000 volunteer team. Updated numbers from A-R-L Field Day, 2022 now 373 00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:02,000 show 1,235,000 265 total reported contacts 374 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:08,001 as of July 26, 2022. A-R-L Contest Program Manager 375 00:29:08,001 --> 00:29:15,001 Paul Burke, N1SFE, reported that 4,774 field day 376 00:29:15,001 --> 00:29:22,000 entries have been submitted and there were 28,250 field day participants. 377 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:30,000 The class breakdown is as follows. 1,141 class A club non 378 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:36,001 -club portable, 598 class B one or two person portable and battery 379 00:29:36,001 --> 00:29:43,001 one or two person portable, 56 class C mobile, 2,093 380 00:29:43,001 --> 00:29:50,001 class D home stations, 735 class E home stations using emergency 381 00:29:50,001 --> 00:29:57,001 power, 151 class F emergency operation centers. The last day 382 00:29:57,001 --> 00:30:02,001 to submit entries was Tuesday, July 26, so the numbers will change in the coming 383 00:30:02,001 --> 00:30:09,001 weeks. Burke added that 237 entries are missing either the required dup 384 00:30:09,001 --> 00:30:15,001 sheet or in lieu of that a Cabrillo formatted log or supporting documentation for 385 00:30:15,001 --> 00:30:22,001 claimed bonus points. He encourages all entrants to check the A-R-L field day 386 00:30:22,001 --> 00:30:28,000 entries received page to verify that their entry has been accepted and if it is 387 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:33,001 complete or pending any supporting documentation. Additional documentation and 388 00:30:33,001 --> 00:30:38,001 log files can be added to previously submitted field day entries by using the 389 00:30:38,001 --> 00:30:43,000 link that was provided in the confirmation email that was received upon 390 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:48,001 submittal. Any questions regarding field day entries should be directed to 391 00:30:48,001 --> 00:30:55,001 fieldday at a-r-l dot org. We pause for stations along the network to identify. 392 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,001 We are This Week in Amateur Radio, your amateur radio and technology news 393 00:31:00,001 --> 00:31:04,001 magazine of the year, available as a podcast on iTunes, Google Play, 394 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,001 iHeartMedia and Spotify. 395 00:31:27,001 --> 00:31:33,001 And now with the latest technology news and commentary from Petaluma, California, 396 00:31:33,001 --> 00:31:37,000 This Week in Amateur Radio is proud to present Leo LaPorte. 397 00:33:03,001 --> 00:33:06,001 I wouldn't want to use it today. First iPhone have 398 00:33:06,001 --> 00:33:08,000 it. Got it right behind me in my museum. 399 00:33:08,001 --> 00:33:12,001 A lot of that stuff ends up at the museum sooner than you'd wish. The 400 00:33:12,001 --> 00:33:17,001 technological world around us, which is really frankly becoming, you know, 401 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:24,000 subtly, slowly, without in some ways us noticing more and more 402 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:31,000 weird. I mean, honestly, if somebody from the 50s came 403 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,001 to the modern times, a lot of things would look the same. Our cars might look 404 00:33:35,001 --> 00:33:39,000 more futuristic, but they're essentially the same. And then they'd see the 405 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,001 smartphone and the internet and computers and they'd go whoa. 406 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:50,000 And our giant TVs and they'd go whoa, whoa. It's okay. I'm your tour 407 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,001 guide to the 21st century. 408 00:33:52,001 --> 00:33:58,000 Whoa. You can call essentially for free any phone in the world. 409 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:06,000 Whoa is right. I mean, that was used to be like a big deal. You'd 410 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,000 call a friend in Europe, you go, there's a call that costs me $8 a minute. Let's 411 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:16,000 get this over with. Now it's like, video, audio. Remember for a while, 412 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:21,000 everybody thought in the 60s, I remember going to the 1964 New York World's Fair 413 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:28,000 where AT&T showed off a video phone and we thought, oh yeah. And then, by 1990, 414 00:34:28,001 --> 00:34:33,000 everybody, all the phone calls, they all be video phone calls. In 2001, A Space 415 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:40,000 Odyssey, you remember that movie came out in the 70s, right? In 2001, A Space 416 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:46,000 Odyssey, our hero, Dr. Floyd, makes a phone call from the moon. There's a moon 417 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,000 base, makes a phone call from the moon base. 418 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:53,001 Actually it's the late 60s, 1968. So it was four years after 419 00:34:53,001 --> 00:34:55,000 AT&T, she showed that video phone. 420 00:34:55,001 --> 00:35:00,001 Dr. Floyd makes a phone call. It gets in a booth. It's still a phone booth in the 421 00:35:00,001 --> 00:35:05,000 future, apparently, and the moon. He goes in a booth and there's a big screen. 422 00:35:05,001 --> 00:35:11,000 And I suppose for 1968, that was a huge screen. It looks like, you know, sideways 423 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,000 computer monitor OS, but it's like about the size of the screen in the Tesla. And 424 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,001 if you had said, you're going to have a screen like that in your car, you don't 425 00:35:18,001 --> 00:35:23,000 need to go to a booth. People would have gone, no, come on, man, that's nuts. 426 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:28,001 Who wants to watch TV in their car? Well, that's a whole nother story. He goes in 427 00:35:28,001 --> 00:35:31,001 there, he makes a phone call to his wife and daughter on earth 428 00:35:31,001 --> 00:35:33,001 to wish his daughter happy birthday. 429 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:39,000 Happy birthday, dear. You know, they sing and all that. And oh, that's the 430 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,001 future. And then a funny thing happened. It didn't happen for a long time. In 431 00:35:43,001 --> 00:35:48,000 fact, I remember saying on this show, I've been doing this show for 18 years. So, 432 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,000 you know, back when you were, you know, when you were not even born yet, some of 433 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:56,000 you, I remember saying, nobody wants to make it turns out, nobody wants to make a 434 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,001 video phone call. We have Skype, we have ways to do it now. 435 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,001 No one wants to do it. And my theory was nobody wants to do it because you don't, 436 00:36:03,001 --> 00:36:09,000 you know, you don't want to put on nice shirt, your makeup, brush your hair, you 437 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,000 don't want to do all that to make a phone call, you just want to be a slob and 438 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,000 make a phone call. Then something happened. 439 00:36:14,001 --> 00:36:18,001 And I think, I think the big change, the big transition for everybody, it all 440 00:36:18,001 --> 00:36:23,000 started, you know, maybe five or six years ago, Apple's FaceTime and so forth. 441 00:36:23,001 --> 00:36:27,001 But then COVID, and we were all working at home and suddenly we're getting, you 442 00:36:27,001 --> 00:36:29,000 know, every call is a video call. 443 00:36:29,001 --> 00:36:35,001 We're zooming, we're zooming all the time. We're zooming home back and forth. And 444 00:36:35,001 --> 00:36:39,000 suddenly we're used to it. And yeah, yeah, maybe you put your face on and brush 445 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,000 your hair a little bit, make your bed before you do the phone call. Sometimes you 446 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:47,001 don't, but just get used to it. And now it's kind of de rigueur. In fact, I don't 447 00:36:47,001 --> 00:36:50,001 know, you tell me, does this feel a little weird when you make a phone call and 448 00:36:50,001 --> 00:36:57,000 it's just a voice? Ah, hello, I'm calling from Paris. It's like a little, 449 00:36:57,001 --> 00:37:02,001 it's a little old fashioned. So that's what we talk about on this show. How times 450 00:37:02,001 --> 00:37:07,000 is changing all around us without us even knowing until you sit back and go, dial 451 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,000 a phone. When's the last time you dialed a phone? Right? But yet, and this is 452 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:16,001 always cracks me up on the, on all of our smartphones, which look like wedges of 453 00:37:16,001 --> 00:37:23,000 glass. They don't look like phone phones. The icon for dialing a phone is what? 454 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,001 It's a handset. When's the last time you saw a handset? You know, that thing you 455 00:37:27,001 --> 00:37:31,000 put up to your ear and there's a, there's an earpiece and there's a microphone 456 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:36,001 and they're separated by a big piece. What are you know, kids must think, I don't 457 00:37:36,001 --> 00:37:42,000 know about mom and dad. They seem to be worshiping ancient artifacts. It's an iOS 458 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:48,001 and Android. It's a handset. I'm going to dial a phone call on my handset. There 459 00:37:48,001 --> 00:37:52,000 was an article actually, an interesting article in the New York Times this week 460 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:57,001 about bringing back the landline. Yeah, that's going to happen. Oh, but she 461 00:37:57,001 --> 00:38:02,000 didn't really bring back the landline. She spent a considerable amount of money 462 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,001 buying one of those old plastic phones. You know, the ones you used to have the 463 00:38:06,001 --> 00:38:10,000 Western electric, they weren't even plastic was like hard resin. I don't know 464 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:15,000 what they, they didn't even, I don't think they'd invented plastic yet. They're 465 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:20,000 so ancient. Remember those? Maybe you don't. They had handsets. She got one of 466 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:24,000 those. I probably bought it on eBay or something. She bought one of these and 467 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:30,000 then got some sort of, it's called How to Relive the Pleasures of the Landline. 468 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,000 How crazy is that? I'm sorry, it wasn't the New York Times. It was the New 469 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:40,001 Yorker. Oh well, oi toi ti. It was the New Yorker with the help of an old rotary 470 00:38:40,001 --> 00:38:44,000 phone and a Bluetooth hookup. That would add there's this. 471 00:38:44,001 --> 00:38:48,001 It's the giveaway. You too could feel like rock Hudson gabbing in the bathtub, 472 00:38:48,001 --> 00:38:55,001 says Rachel Simon. So she bought, you know, on eBay a phone for 20 bucks. She 473 00:38:55,001 --> 00:38:59,000 said you can find far pricier vintage phones on that site, retro phones on 474 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,001 Instagram, friendly colors, avocado, green, Barbie, pink. You know what? Did you 475 00:39:03,001 --> 00:39:09,001 ever, did you, do you remember? Nobody, I'm showing my age here. Do you remember 476 00:39:09,001 --> 00:39:14,000 the princess phone? It had a light lit up dial. Remember that? Yeah, you could 477 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,000 still buy those. And then you hook it up to your what? Cell phone 478 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,001 through a Bluetooth gadget. 479 00:39:18,001 --> 00:39:21,000 She says it doesn't really work very well. I note 480 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,000 this setup is not without its quirks. 481 00:39:23,001 --> 00:39:29,000 In order to get my old rotary phone to ring using the cell to Jack, I can't 482 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:33,000 believe I'm even reading this in the New Yorker magazine of all places using the 483 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:39,001 cell to Jack, I had to pry open the back and switch the bias spring to low 484 00:39:39,001 --> 00:39:44,000 position. This is like, this is how things have changed, right? This is the kind 485 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:48,000 of article you would have in, you know, bite magazine or PC magazine. 486 00:39:48,001 --> 00:39:55,000 Compute, you know, you set the bias spring to low position, some guy, you know, 487 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,001 in a short sleeve white shirt with big dark glasses, big, you know, thick rim 488 00:39:58,001 --> 00:40:04,000 black glasses, using a complicated set of instructions. So the clapper is 489 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,000 sensitive enough to function using the cell to Jack. 490 00:40:07,001 --> 00:40:12,000 No, it's in the New Yorker. The magazine of literary, 491 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,000 upscale, college educated America. 492 00:40:16,001 --> 00:40:19,000 How to relive the pleasures of the landline. What a 493 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,000 world. What a world we live in. 494 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,001 So that's what we talk about. Yeah, I can help you relive 495 00:40:24,001 --> 00:40:26,001 the pleasures of the landline. 496 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,000 Although why? I don't know. The same reason people buy vinyl records, right? 497 00:40:31,001 --> 00:40:37,000 Honestly, I don't care what your audiophile buddy says. They do not sound better. 498 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:44,000 Okay. That's in his head or her head. That's imaginary. They scratch, they click, 499 00:40:44,001 --> 00:40:47,001 they warble, they wow. They not sound better. 500 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:54,001 It's a, it's just this kind of odd nostalgia, isn't it? That we have because 501 00:40:54,001 --> 00:40:59,000 everything's moving just a little too fast. And let's go back to the good old 502 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:04,001 days. Laura, professor, Laura asked me just before the show began, you ever see a 503 00:41:04,001 --> 00:41:07,001 movie called Logan's run? I said, Oh yeah. 504 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:13,000 Oh yeah. That was kind of one of the science fiction classics. When did that come 505 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:19,001 out? My God. A long time ago, 1976. Laura, you weren't even a twinkle. 506 00:41:20,001 --> 00:41:26,001 Your dad probably wasn't even born in 1976. No, he was. Okay. Michael York. It's 507 00:41:26,001 --> 00:41:31,001 the 23rd century in which, and it says, it's an era in which in order to keep the 508 00:41:31,001 --> 00:41:35,001 population low, you only get 30 years and there's a little doohickey you have on 509 00:41:35,001 --> 00:41:37,000 your hand that lights up when you get to be 30. 510 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:44,001 And then the sand man comes to terminate you. It was okay. Interesting story. 511 00:41:44,001 --> 00:41:50,001 Probably a great sci-fi story. Cornball beyond belief. The other day I wanted to 512 00:41:50,001 --> 00:41:55,000 watch Soylent Green because Soylent Green, another classic sci-fi movie, Charlton 513 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:00,001 Heston, takes place in 2022. And I thought, Oh, that's interesting. I wonder what 514 00:42:00,001 --> 00:42:04,000 they think 2022 is like in the distant past. 515 00:42:05,001 --> 00:42:10,000 Let me tell you, it's not good. It's not good. There's food riots. 516 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,000 I'm going to spoil it here. 517 00:42:13,001 --> 00:42:18,001 This is back in 1973. I'm going to spoil it. The food that they eat is called 518 00:42:18,001 --> 00:42:24,000 Soylent Green and it's made of people and they round up protesters with 519 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,000 bulldozers. It's a very strange movie. 520 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:31,000 Very cornball and Logan's run same thing. The future is nothing like we imagined, 521 00:42:31,001 --> 00:42:36,001 not even like 2001, a space Odyssey, nothing like first of all, we don't have in 522 00:42:36,001 --> 00:42:43,001 2001, we didn't have moon bases in 2022. We don't have moon bases. So, you 523 00:42:43,001 --> 00:42:45,000 know, we do have camera phones. 524 00:42:45,001 --> 00:42:49,000 We do have video phones. Anyway, I'm glad you were here 525 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,000 and I'm here and I'll be here next week. 526 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,001 I hope you'll come by and bring your friends too. As we talk high tech, 527 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:56,001 Leo Laporte, tech guy. 528 00:42:57,001 --> 00:43:02,001 Are you ready for another trip into amateur radio history? I'm Bill Cantonelli 529 00:43:02,001 --> 00:43:09,000 W2XOY and I'll be back in a moment with another edition of the ancient amateur 530 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:15,001 archives here on this week in amateur radio. You are listening to North 531 00:43:15,001 --> 00:43:20,001 America's premier news and information service for the amateur radio hobbyist. We 532 00:43:20,001 --> 00:43:23,001 are this week in amateur radio. 533 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:50,000 This is Bill Cantonelli W2XOY with amateur radio 534 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:57,000 history headlines. 1957 Spudnik, the first artificial satellite 535 00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:58,001 is launched by the USSR. 536 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:08,000 Amateurs copy its beacon on 20 and 40 megacycles. 1958 Explorer is launched by 537 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:15,001 the US. Amateurs copy its signal on 108 megacycles. The ham population in 1958 is 538 00:44:15,001 --> 00:44:24,000 160,000, three times the 1946 total. The FCC has to issue WA calls in the second 539 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:32,000 and sixth call areas as the W and K one by three prefixes have run out. Slow scan 540 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:39,001 TV is first described in QST. In September 1958, amateurs lose their share of 11 541 00:44:39,001 --> 00:44:48,001 meters as class D CB is born. 1959, the Geneva conference is held with no major 542 00:44:48,001 --> 00:44:55,000 amateur changes. Technicians get the middle part of two meters from 145 to 147 543 00:44:55,000 --> 00:45:00,001 megacycles, but not without some controversy over the purpose of the license. The 544 00:45:00,001 --> 00:45:06,000 FCC restates their experimental, not communication policy in regards to 545 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:16,001 technicians. 1960, Wayne Green is fired as CQ editor and forms 73 magazine. 1961, 546 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:23,000 Oscar one, the first amateur satellite is launched. Thousands of amateurs copy 547 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:41,001 its 140 milliwatt beacon on 144 megacycles. 1962, Connell Rad is replaced by the 548 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:55,001 American Radio Radio League. The American Radio Radio League, their national 549 00:45:55,001 --> 00:45:59,001 representative society for amateur radio, reports that two amateur radio 550 00:45:59,001 --> 00:46:02,001 operators helped spot a potential forest fire. 551 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:07,001 They were participating in the Black Hills Amateur Radio Club's annual summits on 552 00:46:07,001 --> 00:46:14,001 the air event in South Dakota on July the 16th. Ryan, KEO, Lima X-ray Tango, 553 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:20,000 president of the Black Hills Amateur Radio Club and Christopher, KEO, Romeo Alfa 554 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:26,000 Sierra, had made their trek to activate radio on Cicero Peak. Just before heading 555 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,001 back down, they noticed what might be smoke or dust to the south near hot 556 00:46:30,001 --> 00:46:37,000 springs. KEO, LXT made a contact on their operating frequency to ask a local 557 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:41,000 amateur radio operator if there had been any reports of forest service activity 558 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:46,001 in the area. An off-duty ranger happened to be monitoring a local hand repeater 559 00:46:46,001 --> 00:46:51,001 from his home and hearing the traffic from Cicero Peak, he called in the alert. A 560 00:46:51,001 --> 00:46:56,000 fire crew and a helicopter were able to contain the fire two and a half miles 561 00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:02,000 south of Pringle, South Dakota. Ward, whiskey Charlie Zero Yankee, attending the 562 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:06,001 Black Hills Soda Weekend for his second year, reported that a forest ranger on 563 00:47:06,001 --> 00:47:11,000 Bear Mountain stepped out of the ranger tower to greet him, but at the time was 564 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:15,001 busy monitoring firefighting traffic. Ward said that he could hear the radio 565 00:47:15,001 --> 00:47:20,000 activity while he was on the ground near the tower and the ranger later told him 566 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:24,001 that the forest service was alerted to a small fire when an off-duty ranger was 567 00:47:24,001 --> 00:47:28,000 monitoring a local hand repeater and heard the traffic from Cicero Peak. 568 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:33,000 The ranger credited the hand activity for the early alert that allowed them to 569 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:37,001 address the fire while it was still small. He was very appreciative of how the 570 00:47:37,001 --> 00:47:43,000 ham activity helped them and asked Ward to pass on his thanks. ARRL Dakota 571 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:48,000 Division Director Bill Lippert, Alpha Charlie Zero whiskey applauded the work of 572 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:52,001 the amateur radio operators for their early reporting of what could have been a 573 00:47:52,001 --> 00:47:57,000 major fire as well as crediting the forest service for their quick response. The 574 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:01,000 Black Hills Amateur Radio Club had 12 people participating in their Black Hills 575 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:06,001 Soda Weekend. The club has members and covers the Black Hills region of South 576 00:48:06,001 --> 00:48:11,000 Dakota, which is in the southwest corner of the state. The headquarters are in 577 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:15,001 Rapid City, South Dakota and they are an ARRL-affiliated club. 578 00:48:16,001 --> 00:48:23,000 You can read more by going to the ARRL Letter, dated July 28, 2022 at www 579 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:28,000 .aRLRL.org forward slash ARRL Letter. 580 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:35,001 Here's the latest AMSAT news from Bruce Page, KK5DO. Thanks to StephenKS1G 581 00:48:35,001 --> 00:48:41,001 for providing the following explanation of the current condition of AO27. It 582 00:48:41,001 --> 00:48:45,001 turns on for a few minutes on descending passes at a particular latitude, then on 583 00:48:45,001 --> 00:48:49,001 ascending passes it turns on again at a particular latitude for a few minutes. 584 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:54,000 Currently the satellite is turning on from 80 degrees north until it hits 68 585 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:58,000 degrees north. On the other end it's turning on at 2 degrees south, then staying 586 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:03,001 on until 16 degrees south. It may not be available stateside just now. However, 587 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,001 give the satellite a bit more time and the footprint will slowly creep to the 588 00:49:07,001 --> 00:49:13,000 south. And Bruce is asking is anyone out there a digital techie? If you enjoy 589 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:18,000 DMR, YSF Fusion or DSTAR and would like to connect with those in the satellite 590 00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:24,001 community, you are covered. For years the AMSAT DMR98006 has been linked to 591 00:49:24,001 --> 00:49:31,001 YSF Fusion and that's on the 11689 reflector. Now with the help of Walter, K5WH 592 00:49:31,001 --> 00:49:38,000 and Craig2M0JUM, they have linked a DSTAR reflector XLX606 into the mix. 593 00:49:38,001 --> 00:49:42,001 And if you do not have a digital radio, you can use a smartphone and the Peanut 594 00:49:42,001 --> 00:49:46,000 app for androids. There is not yet an app for iOS. 595 00:49:46,001 --> 00:49:49,000 No matter what the flavor though, you can connect with the 596 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,000 AMSAT digital community. 597 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:56,001 Taking a quick look at this week's Propagation Forecast report, which comes to us 598 00:49:56,001 --> 00:50:01,001 from Tad Cook, K7RA in Seattle, Washington. He reports this week that solar 599 00:50:01,001 --> 00:50:06,001 activity continued to decline with the average daily sunspot number dropping over 600 00:50:06,001 --> 00:50:13,000 the past week from 91.1 to 36. 6 and average solar flux was at 95 601 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:20,000 .7 down from 107.6 the week prior. We have not seen lower values 602 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:26,000 since mid April with average sunspot numbers at 34.4 and the end of February with 603 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,001 the average solar flux at 95.4. 604 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:34,001 This was noticeable over the past week on 10 and 12 meters, but there must be 605 00:50:34,001 --> 00:50:39,000 some daily sporadic from what was seen on email lists devoted to 606 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,000 10 meter propagation beacons. 607 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:46,000 Looking forward, the outlook from the United States Air Force Space Weather Group 608 00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:51,001 shows a meager forecast for solar flux according to forecasters Sadovsky and 609 00:50:51,001 --> 00:50:53,001 Cleopastu on Wednesday. 610 00:50:54,001 --> 00:50:58,001 So the predicted solar flux over the next month never rises above 100 having 611 00:50:58,001 --> 00:51:05,001 values of 100 for August 6th and 7th, 98 and 96 on August 8th and 9th, 98 on 612 00:51:05,001 --> 00:51:12,000 August 10th through the 14th, 100 on August 15th and 16th, and 98 on August 17th 613 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:18,001 and 18th. The predicted planetary A index is 5 on August 6th through the 7th, 8, 614 00:51:18,001 --> 00:51:25,001 14 and 12 on August 8th through the 10th, 8 on August 11th through the 12th, 5 on 615 00:51:25,001 --> 00:51:30,001 August 13th through the 16th, 22 on August 17th and 15 on August 616 00:51:30,001 --> 00:51:32,001 18th through the 19th. 617 00:51:33,001 --> 00:51:39,000 The Irish Radio Transmitter Society reports that almost once a week spaceweather 618 00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:44,000 .com and the students of the Earth to Sky Calculus fly space weather balloons up 619 00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:48,001 into the stratosphere over California. These balloons are equipped with sensors 620 00:51:48,001 --> 00:51:53,001 that detect secondary cosmic rays, a form of radiation from space that can 621 00:51:53,001 --> 00:51:58,000 penetrate all the way down to the Earth's surface. Their monitoring program has 622 00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:02,001 been underway without interruption for seven years resulting in a unique data set 623 00:52:02,001 --> 00:52:07,000 of in-situ atmospheric measurements. Latest results from this month show 624 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:12,000 atmospheric radiation decreasing to the lowest values recorded so far. The 625 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:16,001 radiation drop is caused by increased solar activity during a faster than 626 00:52:16,001 --> 00:52:21,001 predicted rise in activity in solar cycle 25. The sun's strengthening and 627 00:52:21,001 --> 00:52:25,001 increasingly tangled magnetic field, together with an increase in coronal mass 628 00:52:25,001 --> 00:52:29,000 ejections, repel the cosmic rays from deep space. 629 00:52:29,001 --> 00:52:33,000 Cosmic rays could alter the chemistry of our atmosphere. They can trigger 630 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:37,001 lightning and they can penetrate commercial airplanes resulting in an increased 631 00:52:37,001 --> 00:52:39,000 health risk for flight crews. 632 00:52:39,001 --> 00:52:44,001 This weekend, that's August 2022, we'll see the third of the new and quite active 633 00:52:44,001 --> 00:52:49,001 solar regions rotating into view. Current observations show filaments detaching 634 00:52:49,001 --> 00:52:54,000 from at least one of those nearly Earth-facing regions near a large coronal hole 635 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:58,001 in the southern hemisphere. This will likely lead to geomagnetic disturbances 636 00:52:58,001 --> 00:53:03,001 when the plasma cloud of the CMEs arrive midweek, triggering moderate radio 637 00:53:03,001 --> 00:53:09,001 blackouts. The Australian Space Weather Service predicts a 5% chance of R1 to R3 638 00:53:09,001 --> 00:53:14,000 blackouts. So does the European Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, currently 639 00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:20,000 reporting a solar wind speed of around 350 km per second, yet with a low particle 640 00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:26,000 count of 5 protons per cubic centimetre. The interplanetary KP index is hovering 641 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:31,000 around 3 at the moment and is predicted to drop on Monday. The sporadic e-season 642 00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:36,000 is coming to an end. As we head into the autumn, combined with the current state 643 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:40,001 of the sun, one can expect the daytime maximum usable frequency not to rise much 644 00:53:40,001 --> 00:53:43,000 above 15 MHz in the coming days. 645 00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:48,001 Originating from Albany, New York and distributed worldwide, you are listening to 646 00:53:48,001 --> 00:53:50,001 This Week in Amateur Radio. 647 00:54:10,001 --> 00:54:16,000 When the Honga Tonga submarine volcano exploded earlier this year, bringing down 648 00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:20,000 communications to and from the remote island of Tonga, Radio New Zealand Pacific 649 00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:25,001 reverted to shortwave to reach the isolated island nation. In an article in 650 00:54:25,001 --> 00:54:30,000 Public Media Alliance, Richard Sutherland, head of news at Radio New Zealand, 651 00:54:30,001 --> 00:54:34,000 said that when the submarine volcano exploded, it was the most powerful eruption 652 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:40,000 of its type that the world had ever seen since Krakatoa in 1883. In addition to 653 00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:44,001 sending atmospheric shockwaves around the world, the eruption badly damaged the 654 00:54:44,001 --> 00:54:48,001 international high speed subsea cable connecting Tonga to the rest of the world. 655 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:53,001 The island kingdom was cut off, and it was several days before jury-rigged comms 656 00:54:53,001 --> 00:54:58,001 were restored. Getting information out of Tonga was next to impossible, but 657 00:54:58,001 --> 00:55:02,001 thanks to shortwave, Radio New Zealand Pacific was able to broadcast vital 658 00:55:02,001 --> 00:55:07,001 information into the country. Richard Sutherland said that it may seem strange to 659 00:55:07,001 --> 00:55:13,000 be talking about shortwave this far into the 21st century. Shortwave conjures up 660 00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:18,001 images of 1930s-style wood-panelled radios jammed with vacuum tubes, receiving 661 00:55:18,001 --> 00:55:23,000 programmes broadcast from colonial capitals. But what many dismiss as a legacy 662 00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:27,001 distribution platform continues to show its worth even in the age of the 663 00:55:27,001 --> 00:55:32,000 internet. The New Zealand government signed off on a multimillion-dollar 664 00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:36,001 investment in a new shortwave transmitter for RNZ Pacific, which is the 665 00:55:36,001 --> 00:55:40,001 international service of New Zealand's public broadcaster, Radio New Zealand. 666 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:46,001 This will allow them to continue and build on a service that began in 1948, using 667 00:55:46,001 --> 00:55:51,001 transmitters left behind by the US military after the Second World War. Richard 668 00:55:51,001 --> 00:55:56,000 Sutherland said that from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to remote atolls in 669 00:55:56,000 --> 00:56:01,000 the wider Pacific Ocean, shortwave transmissions remain a vital tool in getting 670 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:04,001 news and information to a large but geographically scattered audience. 671 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:08,000 In addition to its ease of delivery, shortwave is no 672 00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:09,001 respecter of political boundaries. 673 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:14,000 It's hard to censor a transmitter nestled deep in the heart of rural New Zealand, 674 00:56:14,001 --> 00:56:18,001 thousands of kilometres away. RNZ Pacific's shortwave service broadcasts 675 00:56:18,001 --> 00:56:23,001 bulletins in Tongan, Samoan and other regional languages. You can read the full 676 00:56:23,001 --> 00:56:28,000 story at www.publicmediaalliance.org. 677 00:56:29,001 --> 00:56:34,001 Foundations of amateur radio As a new amateur, one of the initial perplexing 678 00:56:34,001 --> 00:56:38,000 issues you're confronted with is setting up your first radio to talk to the local 679 00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:43,000 repeater. The question is so common that it's almost an invisible rite of passage 680 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:48,000 to a new licensee. While I'm a fan of learning, there is plenty of that to go 681 00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:51,001 around and setting up your radio to talk to a repeater shouldn't be a hurdle to 682 00:56:51,001 --> 00:56:56,000 getting on air and making noise. Ignoring the whole repeater thing for a 683 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,000 moment, let's consider your radio. 684 00:56:58,001 --> 00:57:00,001 It doesn't matter if it's a handheld, a base 685 00:57:00,001 --> 00:57:02,001 station, a boat anchor or something else. 686 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,000 To participate in the whole repeater experience, you need to 687 00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:07,001 tune your radio to hear it. 688 00:57:08,001 --> 00:57:12,001 Technically, if I told you that you could tune to a local repeater on 146 decimal 689 00:57:12,001 --> 00:57:18,000 750 megahertz, that would be enough information to get you going. But this 690 00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:22,000 depends entirely on a set of standard assumptions that are likely not obvious to 691 00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,001 you. Let's explore what's going on. 692 00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:30,001 Given that frequency, you can set your radio to 146 decimal 750 megahertz and in 693 00:57:30,001 --> 00:57:35,000 most cases you'll be able to hear the repeater. To actually participate, you 694 00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:39,000 would need to do some more work to get your transmitter to be heard. As I said, 695 00:57:39,001 --> 00:57:41,000 standards are what makes that possible. 696 00:57:41,001 --> 00:57:46,001 But like every human endeavor, a caution must be applied. As Andrew Tannenbaum 697 00:57:46,001 --> 00:57:50,001 said, the nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. 698 00:57:51,001 --> 00:57:54,001 With that in mind, let's proceed. Before you start 699 00:57:54,001 --> 00:57:56,001 yelling, I'll add caveats at the end. 700 00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:01,000 Armed with a repeater frequency, you have enough information to get on air, but 701 00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:05,001 it assumes that you know a couple of things. So, let's delve into those 702 00:58:05,001 --> 00:58:09,001 assumptions. For starters, there's an assumption that you're aware that to 703 00:58:09,001 --> 00:58:13,000 operate a repeater you must transmit on a different frequency than what you're 704 00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:17,000 listening on. Why that is the case is a whole other discussion which I'll leave 705 00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:21,001 for today. There is the assumption that you know that the two frequencies, one 706 00:58:21,001 --> 00:58:25,001 for listening, one for transmitting, are separated from each other by a known 707 00:58:25,001 --> 00:58:31,000 distance, a so-called offset. You're also assumed to know that this offset is 708 00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:36,001 fixed but different for each band. There's more, but let's start here. For your 709 00:58:36,001 --> 00:58:40,001 radio to transmit on a different frequency than you listen, you must tell it to. 710 00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:45,000 In many cases, tuning your radio to a so-called repeater frequency will already 711 00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:50,001 do this for you, but not always. You might need to specifically program your 712 00:58:50,001 --> 00:58:56,000 radio for repeater operation, or turn on the offset mode, or use two memories, or 713 00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:59,001 some other things specific to your radio. Read the friendly 714 00:58:59,001 --> 00:59:01,000 manual. I know you know how. 715 00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:06,000 The next step is to look at the band you're on, in this case the two-meter band. 716 00:59:06,001 --> 00:59:10,001 This means that the standard says that the difference between the receive and 717 00:59:10,001 --> 00:59:13,000 transmit frequency is 600 kHz. 718 00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:19,000 I'm studiously ignoring other bands at this moment because standards. At this 719 00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:24,001 point, you know that your radio should be tuned to 146 decimal 750 MHz. It should 720 00:59:24,001 --> 00:59:30,000 be in repeater mode, and the offset should be 600 kHz. That's when the next 721 00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:34,000 question arises. Should that be plus 600 or minus 600? 722 00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:40,001 Guess what? Another standard. If the receive frequency is less than 147 MHz, the 723 00:59:40,001 --> 00:59:47,000 answer is minus 600 kHz. If it's more than 147 MHz, it's plus 600 724 00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:54,000 kHz. Notice that I didn't specify what happens if it's exactly 147 MHz. That's 725 00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:58,001 because nobody knows. Seriously though, the local repeater owner will know, but 726 00:59:58,001 --> 01:00:04,000 you can try either and get your answer. Now for the caveats. Let's start with the 727 01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:09,001 147 MHz crossover exception. This isn't global. For example, repeaters in 728 01:00:09,001 --> 01:00:15,001 California use several different ranges for such a crossover point. I also didn't 729 01:00:15,001 --> 01:00:19,001 tell you about repeaters on other bands because the offset depends on where you 730 01:00:19,001 --> 01:00:26,000 are. In many cases, the 70 cm repeater offset is 5 MHz, but in Europe 731 01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:33,000 it's mostly 7.6 MHz. Unless it's 9 MHz. The 10-meter repeater offsets are 732 01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:38,001 often 100 kHz, but sometimes they're a MHz. Similarly, the 6-meter repeater 733 01:00:38,001 --> 01:00:40,001 offset is 1 MHz, except when it's not. 734 01:00:41,001 --> 01:00:45,000 The point being that starting with the receive frequency, there's a great number 735 01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:49,000 of assumptions, many of which you'll need to discover for your own location. A 736 01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:53,001 great resource, which I've mentioned before, is the brainchild of Garrett kilo 737 01:00:53,001 --> 01:00:59,000 delta 6 kilo papa Charlie, the repeaterbook. com website and app, maintained by a 738 01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:03,000 global group of volunteers which list many repeaters and their specific settings, 739 01:01:03,001 --> 01:01:07,001 frequencies and locations. So armed with this knowledge, I expect that you can 740 01:01:07,001 --> 01:01:11,001 now find a local repeater and make use of it. When in doubt, contact the owner 741 01:01:11,001 --> 01:01:17,000 and ask for help. They're a friendly bunch. Remember to say thank you. So, what 742 01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:19,001 excuse do you have to not get on air and make noise? 743 01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:24,001 Oh, before I forget, if you don't hear anything or if transmit isn't doing what 744 01:01:24,001 --> 01:01:28,001 you expect, check that you've configured CT-CSS. Another 745 01:01:28,001 --> 01:01:31,000 assumption. I'm ono, Victor Kiehlai 06, 746 01:01:33,001 --> 01:01:40,001 Foxtrot EDR notes a problem with lack of 747 01:01:40,001 --> 01:01:46,000 availability of training courses and suggests maybe as many as 50% who pass the 748 01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:51,001 amateur radio exam never go on to become active on the air. The Danish society 749 01:01:51,001 --> 01:01:56,000 said that they hoped for more volunteers to work in both EDR's representative 750 01:01:56,000 --> 01:02:02,000 board and other areas such as training. An association like EDR cannot be 751 01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:06,001 developed by a main board alone, even if all the board members gave 24-7 to the 752 01:02:06,001 --> 01:02:11,000 task. If there was to be more speed to help progress and transition into the 753 01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:16,000 future, more people must be involved and actively participate. There appears to 754 01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:21,000 be a similar problem in the local clubs and society branches in Denmark. There 755 01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:24,001 are several places in the country where it is simply not possible to take a 756 01:02:24,001 --> 01:02:29,000 course which leads to obtaining the amateur radio certificate. In the Frank 757 01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:34,000 report, the national society said that this situation is nothing short of a pure 758 01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:38,001 disaster for the hobby of amateur radio and without new radio amateurs the future 759 01:02:38,001 --> 01:02:43,000 looks quite grim. Part of the problem could and hopefully will be solved by 760 01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:48,000 virtual teaching so that more local branches could go in together and share one 761 01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:52,000 trainer. But the big problem is that Denmark is losing too many of its recently 762 01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:57,001 qualified radio amateurs. The report suggests that this is because new licensees 763 01:02:57,001 --> 01:03:02,000 lack the practical skills to take part in the world's best hobby. There are too 764 01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:06,001 few mentors who can demonstrate how to operate on the air with a radio in hand 765 01:03:06,001 --> 01:03:11,001 and other everyday tasks such as checking the performance of antennas and so on. 766 01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:16,000 The EDR board says that resolving this problem is not merely a matter of a few 767 01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:20,001 meetings, but in many ways the resolution belongs in the local clubs and 768 01:03:20,001 --> 01:03:25,001 branches. It would be a great start if the amateur radio world in Denmark could 769 01:03:25,001 --> 01:03:30,001 capture and retain even half of the 50% who go to the test without becoming 770 01:03:30,001 --> 01:03:35,000 active. This would introduce so many new active amateurs to the hobby year on 771 01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:41,001 year. For more on this story go to tinyurl. com forward slash I-A-R 772 01:03:41,001 --> 01:03:47,000 -U-denmark You're listening to America's premier amateur radio news magazine of 773 01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:49,001 the air this week in amateur radio 774 01:04:01,001 --> 01:04:02,000 [...] 775 01:04:06,001 --> 01:04:12,000 From the Mid-South Studios of the Radio Amateur Information Network, I'm Will 776 01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:18,001 Rogers, K5WLR with the Rain Report Podcast. I want everybody first of all to take 777 01:04:18,001 --> 01:04:25,000 a good deep breath because a lot depends on the weather and a lot depends as 778 01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:31,000 to the makeup of our atmosphere, as to how far we can talk, how far we can 779 01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:34,000 visualize on digital ATV. 780 01:04:34,001 --> 01:04:39,001 Who else would introduce a forum about TROPO at the Dayton Hamvention like that 781 01:04:39,001 --> 01:04:46,001 than Gordon West, WB6NOA. Many of you will recognize the name Gordon West 782 01:04:46,001 --> 01:04:52,001 from his various ham radio materials sold for decades in Radio Shack. Gordo lives 783 01:04:52,001 --> 01:04:57,001 in Southern California and loves the ever-changing weather conditions that make 784 01:04:57,001 --> 01:05:03,001 long-range oceanic TROPO possible. So just what is TROPO anyway? 785 01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:10,000 Just ask Gordo. Our atmosphere is made up of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, dry air, 786 01:05:10,001 --> 01:05:17,000 helium, neon, xenon, and thanks to lunch today methane, carbon 787 01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:22,001 monoxide, you get the idea. And with normal air it gets cooler as we go higher 788 01:05:22,001 --> 01:05:26,000 and with normal air for every 300 feet we lose one degree. 789 01:05:26,001 --> 01:05:32,000 So a mile up we lose 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Moisture also decreases 790 01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:33,001 logarithmically as we go higher. 791 01:05:34,001 --> 01:05:39,001 Pressure decreases as we go higher all in normal air. But something occurs 792 01:05:39,001 --> 01:05:45,001 between the Pacific Coast and Hawaii and it also occurs here in the state of Ohio 793 01:05:45,001 --> 01:05:50,001 all the way down to Texas in one way as well as to the east coast. And through 794 01:05:50,001 --> 01:05:56,000 tropospheric ducting, the compression of the atmosphere, we many times can talk a 795 01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:59,001 great deal further and we can see TV pictures a lot further. 796 01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:05,001 It doesn't occur in the ionosphere but rather it occurs in the troposphere. So 797 01:06:05,001 --> 01:06:10,000 next time you want to squirt some ATV signals over hundreds of miles that 798 01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:14,001 normally would not take place, take a look outside and see what the weather is 799 01:06:14,001 --> 01:06:19,001 like. A daylight today, good luck. We're probably down about 3 dB on being able 800 01:06:19,001 --> 01:06:23,001 to get through. But in the warm summer months warm air is going to get trapped 801 01:06:23,001 --> 01:06:30,000 above the ground cooler air and of course it'll be below the cool dry air. 802 01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:35,001 And this warm air as it begins to settle in usually settles in with a high 803 01:06:35,001 --> 01:06:39,000 pressure system. So for those of you that want to make some long-haul 804 01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:46,000 tropoducting contacts via ATV, look for that warm air and that they call 805 01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:51,000 it subsidence inversion. And during the subsidence inversion there's a sharp 806 01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:56,001 change in the refractive index of air and that sharp change I just came from the 807 01:06:56,001 --> 01:07:02,001 Denver ham show, you can literally see. And of course some of the digital ATV 808 01:07:02,001 --> 01:07:07,001 work that those of you from the Denver area did last year, you could almost see 809 01:07:07,001 --> 01:07:13,001 that you are going to be a success. Ducting occurs over ocean areas as well and 810 01:07:13,001 --> 01:07:19,000 we can see some ominous figures. This one is of a normal island as well as a 811 01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:23,001 ship. Those oil derricks out there on the water look like they're on stilts but 812 01:07:23,001 --> 01:07:28,001 it's actually a refraction of the ionosphere. Those of you up in the Great Lakes 813 01:07:28,001 --> 01:07:33,000 area saw something the other night on the weather channel where sometimes you can 814 01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:39,000 see the other side. That's pretty exciting, usually in July and August. Here's a 815 01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:44,001 very interesting shot that was taken out in Southern California showing a super 816 01:07:44,001 --> 01:07:51,000 tanker and it was an upside down refractive of that tanker. The big deal is our 817 01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:58,000 VHF UHF ATV signals can get caught up in that refractive index and 818 01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:00,000 travel literally for miles. 819 01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:04,001 What we wanted to do out in Southern California is to have it travel all the way 820 01:08:04,001 --> 01:08:10,000 to Hawaii and you would think that well Hawaii's not going to make it on 400 821 01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:15,000 megahertz. Take a listen to this transmission just before we made one of the 822 01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:22,000 first ever one-way contacts with Hawaii. This is from Paul the Lake K86 Hotel 823 01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:27,000 Mike Echo. We're located on the side of the volcano 824 01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:33,001 at 8,200 foot elevation. 8,200 foot 825 01:08:33,001 --> 01:08:40,000 and we're about 25 miles west of the eastern north 826 01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:47,000 shore of the island. Now Paul's a good ham. I just asked him where he was 827 01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:49,001 and he gives me a 10-minute report and of course the van 828 01:08:49,001 --> 01:08:51,001 dies by then but it comes back. 829 01:08:55,000 --> 01:09:01,001 Yeah it sure is Paul. Tell us what mode you're on and tell us what frequency 830 01:09:01,001 --> 01:09:05,001 over. Take a listen 2500 miles. 831 01:09:14,001 --> 01:09:20,000 432 074 for those of you on 70 centimeters whether it's ATV or repeaters 832 01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:22,000 this could happen to you. 833 01:09:33,001 --> 01:09:36,000 [...] Paul how far apart do you think we are? 834 01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:46,000 2500 miles. The conditions continued to improve with conditions appearing on 1.2 835 01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:52,001 gigahertz and that's when we said Paul maybe we should try an ATV contact. Well 836 01:09:52,001 --> 01:09:57,000 he had the transmitter, I had the receiver, he also had a receiver but he didn't 837 01:09:57,000 --> 01:10:03,001 have a television. Oh no so it was a one and a half way contact. It followed the 838 01:10:03,001 --> 01:10:06,000 Hepburn report. Hopefully you've all seen the Hepburn report. 839 01:10:06,001 --> 01:10:10,001 The areas of yellow and red that means conditions are going to be good on 840 01:10:10,001 --> 01:10:16,000 tropoducting. So the late Paul K868 Chimi did something that nobody said would 841 01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:22,000 happen and that was to be able to make the contact between Hawaii and California 842 01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:27,001 where we would see his signals. He was almost triggering Mike's repeater up on 843 01:10:27,001 --> 01:10:33,001 San Diego Peak. Wow two of them and the big thing is once you're in the tropoduct 844 01:10:33,001 --> 01:10:37,001 even a portable station like this should be able to do it. Down at the 845 01:10:37,001 --> 01:10:39,000 beach we got busted. 846 01:10:39,001 --> 01:10:44,001 This park ranger wanted to know what the hell we're doing on the sand with a big 847 01:10:44,001 --> 01:10:50,000 dish. Are we arranging for China to come in and nucus? But it was sort of funny 848 01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:56,001 but it doesn't take a lot for your ATV signals either analog at six megs wide or 849 01:10:56,001 --> 01:10:59,001 maybe digital even mobile to make the path. 850 01:10:59,001 --> 01:11:06,000 So the big prize was Paul, King Henry VI Hotel Mike Echo making 2500 miles over 851 01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:12,001 amateur television and as we go from analog to digital there is no reason we 852 01:11:12,001 --> 01:11:17,000 can't do the same thing digital. So how many folks have gone ATV digital? Let me 853 01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:22,000 see your hand. Good this is great. I expect you to bust that record. So either 854 01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:27,000 come to Southern California or maybe squeak a signal from Ohio down to Miami or 855 01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:31,000 somewhere like that but I bet all of you can make it happen on amateur 856 01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:37,001 television. This has been an excerpt from a Dayton Hamvention ATV forum voiced by 857 01:11:37,001 --> 01:11:43,001 Gordon West WB6NOA often referred to as Gordo talking about 858 01:11:43,001 --> 01:11:49,000 tropospheric ducting often referred to as tropo. I'm Will Rogers 859 01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:56,000 K5WLR bidding you vary 73 from the Radio Amateur Information 860 01:11:56,000 --> 01:12:02,000 Network. A recent article in the Borneo Post says that radio broadcasting has 861 01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:07,000 imprinted a profound impact on society since its conception in the early 20th 862 01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:11,000 century and despite the emergence of digital platforms it remains one of the most 863 01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:16,001 powerful communication tools to this day. According to radio television Malaysia 864 01:12:16,001 --> 01:12:22,000 Sarawak Radio Section Chief Assistant Director Mariel Chungat radio services in 865 01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:28,000 Sarawak continue to play an important role in reaching out to audiences. He said 866 01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:32,000 that this is especially true in the rural areas that have yet to have digital 867 01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:36,000 accessibility but can be reached through reception of bands waves or radio 868 01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:42,000 frequency transmissions either via shortwave or frequency modulation on VHF. He 869 01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:46,001 said that there are some areas in Sarawak, Miri in particular, which still use 870 01:12:46,001 --> 01:12:50,001 shortwave receiving facilities with transmissions being carried out via the radio 871 01:12:50,001 --> 01:12:55,000 television Malaysia Kajang branch transmitter which is still in operation. Mariel 872 01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:59,000 Chungat said that the shortwave bands are still needed especially in the 873 01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:03,001 interiors for the delivery of information and to keep listeners up to date with 874 01:13:03,001 --> 01:13:09,001 what's going on. You can read the full story at www.theborneopost.com 875 01:13:10,001 --> 01:13:15,000 You're listening to This Week in Amateur Radio available as a podcast at our 876 01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:21,001 website www.twir.net and streamed worldwide via 877 01:13:21,001 --> 01:13:23,001 Spotify and iHeartMedia. 878 01:13:44,001 --> 01:13:48,001 Something's brewing in Chester, West Virginia. It's a special event station 879 01:13:48,001 --> 01:13:52,001 celebrating a beloved local roadside symbol which calls itself the world's 880 01:13:52,001 --> 01:13:57,000 largest teapot. Tea and Q-Sos will be served starting August 8th through the 14th 881 01:13:57,000 --> 01:14:00,000 in conjunction with the local teapot festival that takes place in the northern 882 01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:05,000 West Virginia community. Organized by the Hancock Oxcom team in Hancock, West 883 01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:09,000 Virginia, this is very possibly the world's largest tea party. Amateurs will be 884 01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:14,001 on the air with one-by-one call signs W0T through W9T and there'll be a bonus 885 01:14:14,001 --> 01:14:21,000 station WV8HAT. Hams contacting all 10 call signs will earn a certificate for a 886 01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:25,001 full cup. Those working all 10 plus the bonus station are endorsed for a full 887 01:14:25,001 --> 01:14:30,000 pot. The roadside teapot itself is a former advertising symbol created before 888 01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:34,000 World War II and before it gained its spout and handle it was a humble barrel 889 01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:38,001 that advertised a brand of root beer. Standing 14 feet high it is big enough to 890 01:14:38,001 --> 01:14:42,001 hold a colorful history and this annual amateur radio ritual is now marking its 891 01:14:42,001 --> 01:14:46,001 sixth year. If you're in the area please stop by with some crackers and biscuits. 892 01:14:47,001 --> 01:14:51,001 The Young Amateurs Radio Club will host their first annual youth organized 893 01:14:51,001 --> 01:14:58,001 special event from September 1st through the 15th 2022. With more details on this 894 01:14:58,001 --> 01:15:04,000 upcoming special event we go to John Ross KD8IDJ reporting from League 895 01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:10,001 Headquarters. The Young Amateurs Radio Club also known as YARC will host their 896 01:15:10,001 --> 01:15:14,001 first annual youth organized special event from September 1st through the 15th 897 01:15:14,001 --> 01:15:20,001 2022. Using their call sign WY4RC the event is known as Worked All 898 01:15:20,001 --> 01:15:27,001 YARC Zones that's W-A-Y-Z. Operators are activating WY4RC stations 899 01:15:27,001 --> 01:15:33,000 in all 10 U.S. call zones. Different awards are available for youth operators who 900 01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:38,001 activate a station and for those who contact at least six WY4RC stations. Any 901 01:15:38,001 --> 01:15:42,001 young amateur or a club interested in operating during the event can find the 902 01:15:42,001 --> 01:15:48,000 rules and additional information at the Young Amateurs Radio Club website. YARC 903 01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:53,001 founded in 2017 is an international amateur radio club with a focus on promoting 904 01:15:53,001 --> 01:15:58,000 adoption and innovative innovation in amateur radio among young people. 905 01:15:58,001 --> 01:16:03,001 In 2018 the club was officially recognized by the FCC as an official amateur 906 01:16:03,001 --> 01:16:10,000 radio club under the call sign WY4RC. YARC has over 1,000 members on their 907 01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:15,000 discord server as of 2022 and has been changing its structure to bring back 908 01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:18,000 community events and increase engagement. 909 01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:24,000 The DV Scotland and Phoenix UK DMR networks have merged simplifying integration 910 01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:29,000 with other networks both digital and analog. With both networks having a wide 911 01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:33,000 array of repeaters, reflectors and servers the two were considered complementary 912 01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:35,000 and unnatural for such a merger. 913 01:16:35,001 --> 01:16:39,001 This has been a work in progress for many weeks. The new network now benefits 914 01:16:39,001 --> 01:16:45,000 from a variety of DMR, DSTAR and Yaesu system fusion repeaters as well as All 915 01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:47,001 -Star hubs and analog simplex gateways. 916 01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:54,001 Eric G6FGY said via email that current users will not notice any changes and the 917 01:16:54,001 --> 01:16:58,001 new network called DV Scotland Phoenix will continue hosting a variety of nets 918 01:16:58,001 --> 01:17:03,001 accessible by various modes each week. Eric said the merger reflects rather a 919 01:17:03,001 --> 01:17:08,000 change in management structure to operate the network. There is a host of nets 920 01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:12,000 held on the system each week. The Multimode network also supports Peanut, 921 01:17:12,001 --> 01:17:17,001 EchoLink and Hamshack Hotline. Computer and mobile users can also listen in by 922 01:17:17,001 --> 01:17:24,001 using the link asl.dvscotland. uk. Nathaniel Frisell, 923 01:17:24,001 --> 01:17:28,001 Assistant Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the University of 924 01:17:28,001 --> 01:17:35,001 Scranton, will lead a $399,211 National Science Foundation grant 925 01:17:35,001 --> 01:17:40,001 -supported collaborative research project entitled Measuring Daily Ionospheric 926 01:17:40,001 --> 01:17:47,000 Variability and the 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipse Ionospheric Impacts 927 01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:53,001 using HAMSI-HF Doppler shift receivers. As the lead principal investigator, 928 01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:58,001 Dr. Frisell will work with students at the University of Scranton, collaborators 929 01:17:58,001 --> 01:18:04,000 at Case Western Reserve University and volunteer amateurs across the nation to 930 01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:09,001 study how dawn, dust and solar eclipses affect the electrified portion of the 931 01:18:09,001 --> 01:18:15,000 upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere. This will be done using a network of 932 01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:20,001 global navigation satellite system stabilized and synchronized high-frequency 933 01:18:20,001 --> 01:18:27,000 receivers known as GRAPES which were developed as part of the $1.3 million NSF 934 01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:34,000 -funded HAMSI Personal Space Weather Station project he was awarded in 2019. An 935 01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:40,000 annular solar eclipse will take place on October 14, 2023 and a total solar 936 01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:47,000 eclipse will take place on April 8, 2024. These are the last solar eclipses to 937 01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:52,001 traverse the continental United States until 2044 and are therefore important 938 01:18:52,001 --> 01:18:58,000 time-sensitive information rich opportunities for running unique and controlled 939 01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:03,001 ionospheric experiments said Dr. Frisell. This project takes advantage of the 940 01:19:03,001 --> 01:19:10,001 unprecedented opportunity to study the ionospheric impacts of the 2023 and 2024 941 01:19:10,001 --> 01:19:16,000 solar eclipses and the daily ionospheric variability associated with dawn and 942 01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:20,001 dusk transitions. A better understanding of the impact of ionospheric 943 01:19:20,001 --> 01:19:25,001 disturbances is imperative because these changes can affect crucial navigation 944 01:19:25,001 --> 01:19:32,001 and communications systems. According to Dr. Frisell, this new NSF grant will 945 01:19:32,001 --> 01:19:37,000 fund an additional 30 GRAPE receivers that will be deployed throughout North 946 01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:42,000 America. Volunteers from the HAMSI amateur radio community will be able to fund 947 01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:44,000 and field additional stations. 948 01:19:44,001 --> 01:19:49,000 All stations will run continuously from deployment through at least the end of 949 01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:55,001 the project in 2025 and will capture the 2023 and 2024 eclipses. 950 01:19:56,000 --> 01:20:01,000 The grant will also support master's and PhD-level student participation in the 951 01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:06,000 research, data collection, and analysis. This project will also establish a new 952 01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:11,000 network of measurement instruments that, due to its low cost in operation by 953 01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:16,000 volunteers, has the potential to provide measurements for years to come, said Dr. 954 01:20:16,001 --> 01:20:20,001 Frisell, who also noted that results of the project will be shared widely with 955 01:20:20,001 --> 01:20:25,000 the amateur radio community through presentations at amateur radio conventions, 956 01:20:25,001 --> 01:20:30,001 local clubs, and publication in amateur radio magazines and journals. In 957 01:20:30,001 --> 01:20:37,001 addition, Dr. Frisell was awarded a highly competitive five-year $616,054 958 01:20:37,001 --> 01:20:44,000 NSF Career Grant in 2020 to apply sophisticated physics-based atmospheric 959 01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:49,000 and ionospheric models to extensive data sets collected through the International 960 01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:51,000 Network of Ham Radio Operators. 961 01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:57,001 Dr. Frisell joined the faculty at Scranton in the fall of 2019. He earned a 962 01:20:57,001 --> 01:21:01,000 doctorate and a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from 963 01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:05,001 Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, and a bachelor's degree in physics and music 964 01:21:05,001 --> 01:21:11,000 education from Montclair State University in New Jersey. He is the founder and 965 01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:16,000 lead organizer of the International Citizens Science Space Physics Research 966 01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:21,001 Collective, known as the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation. HamSci is 967 01:21:21,001 --> 01:21:27,000 recognized as an official NASA Citizen Science Project. The organizing committee 968 01:21:27,000 --> 01:21:31,001 for HamFest India has announced the event's return on the 12th and 13th of 969 01:21:31,001 --> 01:21:33,001 November in Mysore, Karnataka. 970 01:21:34,000 --> 01:21:37,001 As with so many other major amateur radio events, this usually well-attended 971 01:21:37,001 --> 01:21:42,001 event, which made its debut in India in 1991, had not been held in person as a 972 01:21:42,001 --> 01:21:49,001 result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Shekar Prasad, VU2SPK, the event's general 973 01:21:49,001 --> 01:21:53,000 convener, said that the committee is putting together an agenda and a website, 974 01:21:53,001 --> 01:21:58,000 and both should be available soon. The website is under development at www 975 01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:05,000 .hfi2022.com. Austria's National Radio Society, the 976 01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:10,001 OVSV, reports that on International Youth Day, August 12, young people across 977 01:22:10,001 --> 01:22:15,001 Austria will be permitted to send a greetings message via amateur radio. Unlike 978 01:22:15,001 --> 01:22:19,001 other countries, unlicensed people in Austria are not permitted to communicate 979 01:22:19,001 --> 01:22:25,001 under supervision via amateur radio. The OVSV obtained special permission from 980 01:22:25,001 --> 01:22:30,000 the communications regulator to permit young people to use amateur radio for the 981 01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:34,001 purpose of transmitting a greetings message during selected events in 2022. 982 01:22:35,001 --> 01:22:41,000 International Youth Day on August 12 is one of the permitted events. Such use of 983 01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:44,001 amateur radio stations may only take place under the direct and permanent 984 01:22:44,001 --> 01:22:49,000 supervision of a licensed radio amateur. The unlicensed person can 985 01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:50,001 only convey a message of greeting. 986 01:22:50,001 --> 01:22:56,000 The radio amateur operating the amateur radio station is and remains responsible 987 01:22:56,000 --> 01:23:02,000 for the proper handling of amateur radio traffic. There's more at tinyurl.com 988 01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:05,000 forward slash IARU hyphen Austria. 989 01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:10,001 We pause for stations along the network to identify. We are This Week in Amateur 990 01:23:10,001 --> 01:23:14,001 Radio, available as a direct download on our website at www 991 01:23:14,001 --> 01:23:18,000 .twir.net. 992 01:23:38,001 --> 01:23:43,001 This is November 3, Victor Echo Mike from Parks on the Air with your month ending 993 01:23:43,001 --> 01:23:48,000 June 2022 Parks on the Air update. Be sure to visit parksontheair.com for 994 01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:52,000 information about the program and POTA. app for spotting, park information, 995 01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:56,001 leaderboards, and more. In Parks on the Air News, don't miss the summer plaque 996 01:23:56,001 --> 01:24:02,000 event coming up July 16 and 17 UTC. This is our busiest weekend every year and 997 01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:06,000 it's your chance to win one of 17 high quality plaques for your shack. Once the 998 01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:10,000 event is over, be sure to upload your activation logs using POTA's new self 999 01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:14,000 -upload service and then be on the lookout at the annual plaque event section from 1000 01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:21,000 the menu at pota. app for details on the official POTA YouTube 1001 01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:25,000 channel to help us announce the winners. Guest presenters for this year's awards 1002 01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:30,001 show include individuals from AR Newsline, Ham Radio Crash Course, ICQ Podcast, 1003 01:24:31,000 --> 01:24:35,001 Temporarily Offline Ham Radio, Ham World Online, Red Summit RF, Pride Radio 1004 01:24:35,001 --> 01:24:42,001 Group, Ria's Shack Ham Radio, KB9VBR Antennas, Kyle AA-0Z Ham Radio, Ham Radio 1005 01:24:42,001 --> 01:24:48,000 Clubhouse, Ham Radio Adventure Guy, K8MRD Radio Stuff, Ham Radio Live and WRMI 1006 01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:53,001 Shortwave CQ Calling Show, Ham Radio Workbench Podcast, Ham Radio 2.0, and of 1007 01:24:53,001 --> 01:24:58,000 course Parks on the Air. For our final news item, I am personally excited to 1008 01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:03,000 announce that Matt here, N3NWV, who many of you know from our official POTA 101 1009 01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:07,000 videos, will be taking over the reins of these monthly updates beginning in 1010 01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:10,001 August. I've had a lot of fun recording these updates, but I'm looking forward to 1011 01:25:10,001 --> 01:25:14,000 handing the reins over to our official media manager as we continue to grow the 1012 01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:17,001 program. And now for the monthly stats update. 1013 01:25:17,001 --> 01:25:24,000 June continued our streak of high activity months. We had 2,114 operators 1014 01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:31,000 complete 10,158 activations from 3,980 parks in 39 different DX 1015 01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:37,001 entities. Of the activators, N2NWK and W6ZD continued their runs in 1016 01:25:37,001 --> 01:25:43,001 the top spots with 283 activations and 63 different parks respectively. The top 1017 01:25:43,001 --> 01:25:48,001 hunter by number of parks was also a repeat this month with K9ICP hunting 1018 01:25:48,001 --> 01:25:50,000 1008 different parks. 1019 01:25:50,001 --> 01:25:57,001 The hunter who made the most Q-SOS this month was W1RCP with 1,856 contacts. 1020 01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:03,001 In POTA DX, England took back the top spot in Region 1 with 121 activations. 1021 01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:08,001 Canada and Japan continued to hold their top spots in Regions 2 and 3 with 690 1022 01:26:08,001 --> 01:26:14,000 and 342 activations each. The individual DX operator who completed the most 1023 01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:20,000 activations was HI8DL in the Dominican Republic who completed 134 activations. 1024 01:26:20,001 --> 01:26:24,001 The DX race for most parks activated was neck and neck, but at the end of the 1025 01:26:24,001 --> 01:26:30,001 month it was VE3GKT who activated 47 parks taking the top spot by just one park 1026 01:26:30,001 --> 01:26:37,000 over VA7DBJ. And last but not least, let's check in on the progress of the Baily 1027 01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:43,001 Sprott Challenge. In 2021, N5HA and W9AV each managed to hunt a park every day. 1028 01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:49,000 So in 2022, we're following along to see if anyone else can match their feat. At 1029 01:26:49,000 --> 01:26:53,001 182 days into the year, we have four activators who have been out every day of 1030 01:26:53,001 --> 01:27:00,000 the year, KE8PZN, N2NWK, K4NYM, and KD4MZM. 1031 01:27:00,001 --> 01:27:04,001 The pull of hunters has dropped by one from last month with just 30 individuals 1032 01:27:04,001 --> 01:27:08,000 still in the running. To all of the Baily Sprott participants, congrats on your 1033 01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:12,000 success so far and we look forward to seeing how you do in the second half of the 1034 01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:17,000 year. This concludes our May 2022 Parks on the Air update. As always, the team at 1035 01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:22,001 Parks on the Air wishes you safe activations and happy hunting! 73! And now with 1036 01:27:22,001 --> 01:27:27,000 his segment on how to successfully compose a public service announcement to 1037 01:27:27,000 --> 01:27:33,001 promote your radio club meeting or hamfest on local Arizona's own Greg 1038 01:27:33,001 --> 01:27:40,000 Stoddard, KF9MP. In the first two segments of this series on promoting your ham 1039 01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:44,000 radio club's event, we covered the basic outline for a two 1040 01:27:44,000 --> 01:27:45,001 -paragraph public service announcement. 1041 01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:51,001 If you missed that show, check out our archived shows on the internet and stay 1042 01:27:51,001 --> 01:27:56,001 tuned to this week at amateur radio when we'll repeat our webpage address. So 1043 01:27:56,001 --> 01:27:59,001 this time, we'll put all the information about our public service announcement 1044 01:27:59,001 --> 01:28:05,000 onto paper and get it ready to mail to radio and tv stations in the area. We 1045 01:28:05,000 --> 01:28:09,001 covered a sample PSA last time. Let's get out our notes and get the word 1046 01:28:09,001 --> 01:28:15,001 processor running and get ready to enter the final draft. I would suggest a bold, 1047 01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:21,000 large type heading which reads public service announcement. This will go all the 1048 01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:28,000 way across the top of the 1049 01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:34,000 paper. This is very important as I'll explain later. Next line, left justified, 1050 01:28:34,001 --> 01:28:36,000 type in kill date. 1051 01:28:36,001 --> 01:28:40,000 This is the date that you want your PSA to stop running which would usually be 1052 01:28:40,000 --> 01:28:46,000 the day after the event. Next, paste in the text of your two-paragraph PSA. Make 1053 01:28:46,000 --> 01:28:48,001 sure it's spell checked and double spaced. 1054 01:28:49,001 --> 01:28:56,000 Your PSA text should be a large, bold, simple text font. Now hit the enter key a 1055 01:28:56,000 --> 01:29:02,001 few times and enter contact person. This should be the name, address, email, fax, 1056 01:29:02,001 --> 01:29:07,000 phone number of a person to contact for information about the event described in 1057 01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:12,001 the PSA. This person should be able to answer phoned questions about the event. 1058 01:29:13,000 --> 01:29:15,000 Be careful whom you choose for this position. 1059 01:29:15,001 --> 01:29:21,001 Be sure to include any relevant titles like club president for this person. Also 1060 01:29:21,001 --> 01:29:26,000 include a formal address and contact information about the club submitting the 1061 01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:32,000 event. I always like to add a five-word phrase in parenthesis after the name of 1062 01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:38,001 the club like the Bowen County Amateur Radio Club, a not-for-profit organization. 1063 01:29:39,000 --> 01:29:44,000 Take a look at your PSA sheet. It should be visibly obvious with a very quick 1064 01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:49,000 glance what part is to be read on the air. The starting and ending points should 1065 01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:54,001 be very obvious. The script must be grammatically correct and spelling perfect. 1066 01:29:55,000 --> 01:30:00,000 You may punctuate for breathing marks if you know how to do that. It should also 1067 01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:02,000 be readable in 30 seconds or less. 1068 01:30:02,001 --> 01:30:06,001 Have more than one person read it timed to be sure it's the proper length. 1069 01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:13,000 Remember the burden is on you so don't give the PSA manager or disc jockey a 1070 01:30:13,000 --> 01:30:15,001 reason not to read your PSA on the air. 1071 01:30:15,001 --> 01:30:21,000 Make it ready to use right out of the envelope. Any PSA with bad grammar, single 1072 01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:26,001 line spacing, misspellings, or just a lousy read are easily passed over for 1073 01:30:26,001 --> 01:30:32,001 others that are easier to read on the air as is. This is Greg Stoddard, KF 1074 01:30:32,001 --> 01:30:36,000 9MP, reporting for This Week in Amateur Radio. 1075 01:30:36,001 --> 01:30:43,000 The Pomeranian local branch of the Polish Amateur Radio Union, PZK, has invited 1076 01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:47,001 all amateur radio operators to participate in the 200th anniversary of the 1077 01:30:47,001 --> 01:30:52,001 construction and launch of the lighthouse in Rozewitsch, Smolund. The on-air 1078 01:30:52,001 --> 01:30:58,001 award competition is active until August 31, 2022, with nine special event 1079 01:30:58,001 --> 01:31:03,000 stations. Two of them are joker stations that will be on the air only during the 1080 01:31:03,000 --> 01:31:09,001 25th anniversary on August 20 and 21. Commemorative e-diplomas will be 1081 01:31:09,001 --> 01:31:15,000 issued to those who meet these special criteria. The competition is also open for 1082 01:31:15,000 --> 01:31:19,000 shortwave listening stations. The rules and frequencies for the 200th anniversary 1083 01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:24,000 of the Polish Lighthouse in Rozewitsch are available on the website. There's 1084 01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:28,000 nothing like a winter trip through the snow-filled Victorian Alps to bring some 1085 01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:33,000 winter warmth to the bands. That's what a team of cross-country skiing radio 1086 01:31:33,000 --> 01:31:39,001 amateurs in Australia is hoping for as they call QRZ between Friday, August 5 and 1087 01:31:39,001 --> 01:31:46,001 Tuesday, August 9. The activators include Steven, VK3SN, Gerard, 1088 01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:54,000 VK3GT, Brownwyn, VK3FIRH among others, and they will be 1089 01:31:54,000 --> 01:32:01,000 on the HF bands 80 through 10 meters using SSB and FT8. They will also 1090 01:32:01,000 --> 01:32:06,000 be on 2 meters and 70 centimeters simplex and on repeaters. They'll be using 1091 01:32:06,000 --> 01:32:11,000 lithium batteries and light solar panels for power. This isn't the first time 1092 01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:16,000 many of these hams have been making this kind of winter trip. Past travels have 1093 01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:21,000 been quite an adventure involving operations from igloos and a number of remote 1094 01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:25,000 peaks. Listening for them promises to be quite an adventure too. 1095 01:32:48,001 --> 01:32:53,000 There are wars to be had in the 42nd contest sponsored by the Australian Ladies 1096 01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:58,001 Amateur Radio Association. There's even certifications and trophies, but 1097 01:32:58,001 --> 01:33:02,000 organizers want participants around the world to know that the real goal of the 1098 01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:09,000 42nd annual AL-A-RA contest on the 27th and 28th of August is to get all 1099 01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:12,001 licensed ham radio operators around the world talking to each other. 1100 01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:17,000 By spotting on the clusters and even on Facebook, all the competitors actually 1101 01:33:17,000 --> 01:33:21,001 work together to make it easier to make these important contacts. Competition? 1102 01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:26,001 Yes, but friendly competition. To be listening too for the same of the newest 1103 01:33:26,001 --> 01:33:31,001 licensed YLs as well as girl guides and scouts, some contacts are expected to be 1104 01:33:31,001 --> 01:33:38,000 made on Echolink as well. Visit the AL-A-RA contest page for more details. You'll 1105 01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:42,000 find the rules and any other details you need to know to get into the contest. 1106 01:33:43,000 --> 01:33:48,000 Just ahead in radio sports this week, many good opportunities. On August 5th, 1107 01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:53,001 that's the QRP Fox Hunt, that's CW. August 6th and 7th, a couple of events, the 1108 01:33:53,001 --> 01:33:58,001 Batavia FT8 contest, FT8 there of course. August 6th and 7th, the 10-10 1109 01:33:58,001 --> 01:34:02,000 International Summer Contest, single side band and phone. 1110 01:34:02,001 --> 01:34:08,001 On August 6th, it's the European HF Championship, CW phone. Then again on August 1111 01:34:08,001 --> 01:34:14,000 6th and 7th, a couple of events, the North American QSO party, that's CW. Also on 1112 01:34:14,000 --> 01:34:19,001 August 7th, the ARRL 222 megahertz and up distance contest, CW phone and digital. 1113 01:34:20,001 --> 01:34:25,001 On August 7th, the SARL HF phone contest, that's phone. On August 9th, the 1114 01:34:25,001 --> 01:34:28,000 worldwide side band activity contest, that's phone. 1115 01:34:28,001 --> 01:34:35,000 On August 10th, the NAQCC CW Sprint, CW of course there. Also on August 10th, the 1116 01:34:35,000 --> 01:34:42,000 phone weekly test phone and on August 10th, the VHF UHF FT8 contest, that is FT8. 1117 01:34:42,001 --> 01:34:47,001 And on August 12th, the QRP Fox Hunt, that is CW. And some upcoming state section 1118 01:34:47,001 --> 01:34:51,001 and state division conventions you'll want to be aware of on August 6th and 7th, 1119 01:34:51,001 --> 01:34:56,001 that's the Cedar Valley ARC Tech Fest hosting the ARRL Iowa State Convention, 1120 01:34:57,000 --> 01:35:01,001 that's in Central City, Iowa. On August 13th, the Tidewater Ham Fest and Swap 1121 01:35:01,001 --> 01:35:06,000 Meet hosting the ARRL Virginia State Convention, that's in Portsmouth, Virginia. 1122 01:35:06,001 --> 01:35:11,000 On August 20th through the 21st, the Huntsville Ham Fest hosting the ARRL 1123 01:35:11,000 --> 01:35:13,001 Southeastern Division Convention, that's in Huntsville, Alabama. 1124 01:35:14,000 --> 01:35:18,001 Then on August 26th through the 28th, the Northeast Ham Exposition hosting the 1125 01:35:18,001 --> 01:35:23,000 ARRL New England and Hudson Division Conventions, that's in Morroboro, 1126 01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:27,001 Massachusetts. On September 2nd through the 4th, the Shelby Ham Fest hosting the 1127 01:35:27,001 --> 01:35:31,000 ARRL North Carolina Section Convention, Shelby, North Carolina. 1128 01:35:31,001 --> 01:35:36,000 And on September 11th, the ARRL Southern New Jersey Section Convention, that's in 1129 01:35:36,000 --> 01:35:37,001 Mullica Hill, New Jersey. 1130 01:35:38,001 --> 01:35:44,000 A small satellite built by 750 schoolgirls in India will be on board for the 1131 01:35:44,000 --> 01:35:48,000 maiden flight of the Indian Space Research Organization's small 1132 01:35:48,000 --> 01:35:50,000 satellite launch vehicle this month. 1133 01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:55,000 The students were mentored by Space Kids India in the construction of 1134 01:35:55,000 --> 01:35:56,001 this 8-kilogram satellite. 1135 01:35:57,000 --> 01:36:03,001 It carries 75 small experiments, a camera to study solar panels in space, and a 1136 01:36:03,001 --> 01:36:09,000 variety of long-range communications transponder experiments. The satellite also 1137 01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:14,000 has a messaging system for amateur radio operators. Although this is not the 1138 01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:19,000 first student satellite built with the help of Space Kids India, this one is 1139 01:36:19,000 --> 01:36:23,001 different because it carries its own power systems and batteries to power an 1140 01:36:23,001 --> 01:36:29,000 anticipated six-month-long orbit. This satellite is not, of course, the main 1141 01:36:29,000 --> 01:36:34,001 payload for a launch vehicle. The rocket will also be carrying the MicroSat-2A, 1142 01:36:35,000 --> 01:36:40,000 which is designed to assist in the mapping of parcels of land. The launch was 1143 01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:45,001 scheduled for August the 7th. And finally this week, if time feels tighter than 1144 01:36:45,001 --> 01:36:50,000 ever of late, blame it on the revolution. On June 29th this year, Earth racked up 1145 01:36:50,000 --> 01:36:54,001 an unusual record. Its shortest day since the 1960s, when scientists began 1146 01:36:54,001 --> 01:36:58,000 measuring the planet's rotation with high-precision atomic clocks. Broadly 1147 01:36:58,000 --> 01:37:02,001 speaking, Earth completes one full turn on its axis every 24 hours. That single 1148 01:37:02,001 --> 01:37:06,001 spin marks out a day and drives the cycle of sunrise and sunset that has shaped 1149 01:37:06,001 --> 01:37:11,001 patterns of life for billions of years. But the curtains fell early on June 29th, 1150 01:37:11,001 --> 01:37:16,001 with midnight arriving 1.59 milliseconds sooner than expected. The past few years 1151 01:37:16,001 --> 01:37:19,000 have seen a flurry of records fall, with shorter days 1152 01:37:19,000 --> 01:37:20,001 being notched up ever more frequently. 1153 01:37:20,001 --> 01:37:26,000 In 2020, the Earth turned out 28 of the shortest days in the past 50 years, with 1154 01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:32,001 the shortest of those on July 19th, shaving 1. 47 milliseconds off the 86,400 1155 01:37:32,001 --> 01:37:34,001 seconds that make up 24 hours. 1156 01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:39,001 The June 29th record came close to being broken again last month, when July 26 1157 01:37:39,001 --> 01:37:44,000 came in 1.5 milliseconds short. Naturally, this has led many to wonder whether 1158 01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:47,001 the Earth is speeding up and whether they should be alarmed about that fact. If 1159 01:37:47,001 --> 01:37:51,000 you take a long view of the planet's history, you'll see that the planet is 1160 01:37:51,000 --> 01:37:55,001 actually spinning slower than it used to. 1.4 billion years ago, the Earth took 1161 01:37:55,001 --> 01:37:59,001 less than 19 hours to complete a single rotation. So in fact, the Earth is 1162 01:37:59,001 --> 01:38:03,000 actually slowing down little by little, thanks largely to the gravitational 1163 01:38:03,000 --> 01:38:06,001 effect that the Moon has had on our planet. It's true then that the Earth is 1164 01:38:06,001 --> 01:38:10,000 slowing down over the long term, but the picture is less clear when you consider 1165 01:38:10,000 --> 01:38:13,001 a shorter time scale. Everything from shifts in the Earth's crust to its 1166 01:38:13,001 --> 01:38:18,000 atmosphere has an impact on how fast each day is, but those changes are basically 1167 01:38:18,000 --> 01:38:22,000 imperceptible to the average person. Atomic clocks may tell us that the days are 1168 01:38:22,000 --> 01:38:25,001 getting shorter, but we can't really feel those changes ourselves. Although 1169 01:38:25,001 --> 01:38:29,000 scientists may still be reckoning with the exact reasons why the Earth seems to 1170 01:38:29,000 --> 01:38:32,001 be spinning faster, they have said that if days keep getting shorter, we may 1171 01:38:32,001 --> 01:38:34,000 need to take a negative leap second. 1172 01:38:34,001 --> 01:38:38,000 Instead of adding a second to the clocks, we'll need to skip a second to keep up 1173 01:38:38,000 --> 01:38:41,001 with the rotation of the Earth. According to the Guardian, this change in the 1174 01:38:41,001 --> 01:38:44,001 clocks could ultimately reignite an old debate that's frequently had among 1175 01:38:44,001 --> 01:38:48,001 scientists about whether we should continue to tell time based on the rotation of 1176 01:38:48,001 --> 01:38:52,000 the Earth. While that's certainly the system we've used thus far, it seems that 1177 01:38:52,000 --> 01:38:55,001 there is a contingent of people who think that we may be able to move past that 1178 01:38:55,001 --> 01:39:00,001 system and try something else moving forward. This week in amateur radio is 1179 01:39:00,001 --> 01:39:05,001 holding open auditions for news anchors for the weekly national worldwide amateur 1180 01:39:05,001 --> 01:39:12,000 radio news service. If you have a good radio voice and can reliably read provided 1181 01:39:12,000 --> 01:39:17,001 news copy, we are looking for you. This of course is an all-volunteer position 1182 01:39:17,001 --> 01:39:23,000 and amateur radio license is not required. You must have a high quality 1183 01:39:23,000 --> 01:39:28,001 microphone, headset mics are not used, and be familiar with audio editing 1184 01:39:28,001 --> 01:39:33,001 software to record and edit your finished news stories before uploading. If you 1185 01:39:33,001 --> 01:39:37,001 would like to try out for a weekly or biweekly anchor position with North 1186 01:39:37,001 --> 01:39:43,000 America's premier amateur radio news on air and podcast, please send an email to 1187 01:39:43,000 --> 01:39:49,001 our producer George W2XBS. You can include a sample mp3 of yourself reading news 1188 01:39:49,001 --> 01:39:56,000 copies sent as an attachment to W2XBS77 at gmail.com. 1189 01:39:56,001 --> 01:40:03,000 That's whiskey the number 2 x-ray bravo sierra 77 at gmail.com. Be sure and 1190 01:40:03,000 --> 01:40:05,001 use anchor audition in the subject line. 1191 01:40:06,001 --> 01:40:10,001 Please include your phone number and a good window of time for a callback to 1192 01:40:10,001 --> 01:40:15,000 discuss your submission and our operating logistics to see if this week in 1193 01:40:15,000 --> 01:40:21,000 amateur radio is a good fit for you. We hope to hear from you soon. Electron 1194 01:40:21,000 --> 01:40:26,000 Benders Amateur Radio Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma airs this week in amateur radio 1195 01:40:26,000 --> 01:40:33,000 every week on Club owned KOKTLP 90.9. Many of the news and information items 1196 01:40:33,000 --> 01:40:37,001 heard on this edition of This Week in Amateur Radio have been provided by the 1197 01:40:37,001 --> 01:40:43,000 American Radio Relay League, the AWRL Audio News Service, and the AWRL Letter, 1198 01:40:43,001 --> 01:40:48,001 the Southgate Amateur News Service, Steve Richards G4 Hotel Papa Echo, and the 1199 01:40:48,001 --> 01:40:55,000 Southgate Vibes News Service. AMSAT, the Radio Amateurs of Canada, the FCC, the 1200 01:40:55,000 --> 01:41:00,000 Radio Society of Great Britain, and Ofcom, the South African Radio League, the 1201 01:41:00,000 --> 01:41:05,000 International Amateur Radio Union, the Wireless Institute of Australia, and the 1202 01:41:05,000 --> 01:41:09,000 Australian Communications and Media Authority, the New Zealand Association of 1203 01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:14,001 Radio Transmitters, the Amateur Radio News Line, the Rain Hamcast, Eric Guth, 1204 01:41:15,000 --> 01:41:21,001 Forzed1UG, and QSO Today, QRZ.com, the Tech Guy, Leo Laporte, the International 1205 01:41:21,001 --> 01:41:27,001 Telecommunications Union, and various news sources on the internet. With special 1206 01:41:27,001 --> 01:41:32,001 thanks to all our weekly news sources and to you, our listeners, that wraps up 1207 01:41:32,001 --> 01:41:37,001 this edition of This Week in Amateur Radio. If you'd like to write to us, you can 1208 01:41:37,001 --> 01:41:42,000 find everything you need, including archive editions of the news service at our 1209 01:41:42,000 --> 01:41:48,001 website at TWIR.net. And now, for all of us at This Week in Amateur Radio 1210 01:41:48,001 --> 01:41:53,001 headquarters, and our news team around the world, this is Chris Parrine, 1211 01:41:53,001 --> 01:41:57,000 KB2FAF, wishing you a 73.